Measure - Lower Class characters Flashcards
Desmet
Yet the parody of judicial process / Elbow (as Justice) accuses Pompey (as Iniquity) of uncertain crimes, demonstrates the impossibility of clear moral divisions. Justice and Iniquity spar ineffectually with one another, ‘
Wilders
On froth
highlighting the disjunction between the law’s idealized authority and its actual execution.”
A05 – 2019 RSC – confused man with no pants on.
Baker
its likely ‘kate resorts to prosutuion only after the seiral Philanderer under the guise of matrimony seduces, impregnates, and callously abadoned her
Garber
Unlike Isabella, who seeks a higher form of mercy, Mistress Overdone’s actions are grounded in the physical and social survival mechanisms of the lower class.”
Bloom on barnadine
‘Barnardine is the genius of that disorder, and qualifies as the imaginative center (and greatest glory) of Measure for Measure’
‘The superb Barnardine will not play by the rules of Vincentia’s Vienna’
‘the convicted murderer’s use is to represent, the unregenerate human nature that is Vienna or the world, vunlerable to all oppressions or order’
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Bevington
“Pompey is the mirror to the hypocrisies of the governing class
Orgel
On Pompey
“His comedic exchanges reveal that the lines between the ‘high’ and ‘low’ in moral and social terms are often arbitrary.”
Greenbaltt escalus
’ “deliberate passivity” in the play is a reflection of Shakespeare’s skepticism about human institutions and the limits of benevolent authority.
Hunter on Provost
‘his passive acceptance of the Duke’s complex plans highlights the play’s deeper questions about the limits of authority. He shows that moral leadership often becomes a matter of compliance rather than personal judgment.’
Martz on lower status
Martz - “the essence of this contrast is that the farcical creatures represent a life of openness, directness and sexual license … in contrast to the [others’] rigidity.
Goodard
“We are more in love in the end with the disreputable than with the reputable characters’ - as they openly embrace their sexuality
