Paradisa Lost & Duchess of Malfi - AO5 Context

Question 1

Book of Genesis

Answer 1

’ Lard God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man ‘
, she took some and ate it,

Question 2

John Milton - doctrine and discipline of divorce 1643

Answer 2

’ Bashful cuteness of a virgin may oft-times hide all The unloveliness and natural sloth… Unfit for conversation ‘

Question 3

John Milton - tenure of kings and magistrates 1649

Answer 3

’ Turning to tyranny may be… Lawfully Depos’d and punish’d’

Question 4

John Milton - 1667

Answer 4

’ Justify the ways of God to man ‘

Question 5

Voltaire 1759

Answer 5

’ Other poems love is represented as a vice; in Milton only it is a virtue ‘

Question 6

Siegel 1950

Answer 6

’ Milton was merely capping the logic of the puritan writers…marriage was based on an intellectual companionship ‘

Question 7

Hill 1975

Answer 7

’ The fall is an analogy for the collapse of commonwealth government’

Question 8

Mullini 1993

Answer 8

’ Reproduce stereotyped idea of Italy asthe land of corrupt power and lost glory’

Question 9

Murphy 2018

Answer 9

’ Sought to bring Christianity all the way down from a cosmic to the personal level… to was very puritan’