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Other refs Flashcards

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Alfonso in ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ re: power and ambition

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‘ambition is a great man’s madness’

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Proverb

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‘the white devil is worse than the black’

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Webster on The White Devil’s reception

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‘it wanted a full and understanding audience’

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English saying during Jacobean times

Used to attack the fashion of the time for young English nobles to travelled to Italy and return well versed in language and culture but also in loose morals and vices

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‘an Englishman Italianate is the devil incarnate’

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