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Lodovoco characternym
Latin ‘ludo’ means ‘I Play’
A jacobean audience would realise this
Smithfield market, where Webster grew up
Annual event there called Bartholomew Fair. Lots of bad people go to that, thieves etc, which Webster would have experienced and so influenced his upbringing. This is a reason for his negative world view.
‘The Palace of Pleasure’ (1567) - William Painter
“Soon as she steppeth out of the right tract… Thrusteth herself into infinite troubles”
“Causeth the ruin of such which should be honoured by man”
Monticelso could use this against her during her trial, he’d hold these views. She faulted herself by not being the stereotypical woman (Eve), she used her “woman’s allurement” to ruin man
In the Jacobean courts, it was common for…
Women to defend themselves in ecclesiastical courts from accusations of being a ‘whore’
