Pl and Malfi blitz Flashcards
Antonio - “royal palace,
of flatt’ring sycophants”
Antonio - “some cursed example poison’t near the head,
death and diseases through the whole land spread”
Bosola - “blackbirds fatten best
in hard weather”
Bosola - “like plum trees that grow
crooked over standing pools”
Ferdinand - “laugh
when I laugh”
Ferdinand “I would then have a mathematical instrument made for her face,
that she might not laugh out of compass”
Antonio - “a most perverse
and turbulent nature” (Ferdinand)
Ferdinand - “note all the
particulars of her haviour”
Ferdinand - “you envy those
that stand above your reach”
Cardinal - “nor any thing without the addition,
honour, sway your high blood”
Duchess - “I’ll never
marry”
Ferdinand - “your darkest actions,
nay, your privat’st thoughts, will come to light”
Cardinal - “the marriage night is
the entrance into some prison”
Ferdinand - “what cannot a neat knave
with a smooth tale make a woman believe?”
Duchess - “one of your eyes is blood-shot,
use my ring to’t”
Antonio - “there is a saucy
and ambitious devil is dancing in this circle”
Duchess - “this godly roof
of yours is too low built”
Duchess - “I have heard
lawyers say..”
Duchess - “plot t’appease my
humorous kindred”
Duchess - “the misery of
us that are born great”
Antonio - “this mole does
undermine me” (Bosola)
Antonio - “The great are like they base, nay, they are the same,
When they seek shameful ways to avoid shame”
Bosola - “She’s oft found
witty, but is never wise”
Cardinal - “you have approved those giddy
and wild turnings in yourself” (Julia)
Cardinal - “You cannot make
me cuckold” (Julia)
Delio - “I would wish you…
my mistress” (Julia)
Delio - “How fearfully shows
his ambition now”(Antonio)
Ferdinand - “Grown a
notorious strumpet”
Ferdinand - “To purge infected blood,
such blood as hers”
Ferdinand - “a bark made of so slight weak
bullrush as is woman”
Cardinal - “there is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed,
so beastly, as does intemperate anger”
Ferdinand - “I’ll find scorpions
to string my whips”
Antonio - “an excellent Feeder
of pedigrees”
Antonio - “The common rabble do
directly say she is a strumpet”
Antonio - “my rule is
only in the night”
Duchess - “I have not gone about in this
to create any new world or custom”
Duchess - “my reputation
is safe”
Ferdinand - “Dost thou know
what reputation is?” (Duchess)
Bosola - “will you make yourself a mercenary herald,
rather to examine men’s pedigrees than virtues?”
Ferdinand - “And ne’er in’s life
looked like a gentleman”
Bosola - “she seems rather to welcome
the end of misery than shun it”
Duchess - “I’ll starve
myself to death”
Duchess - “I account this world a tedious theatre,
for I do play a part in’t ‘gainst my will”
Ferdinand - “I would not wish
to see you married”
Cariola - “wild consort
of madmen”
Duchess - “I am chained to
endure all your tyranny”
Duchess - “I am the Duchess
of Malfi still”
Cariola - “villains,
tyrants, murderers!”
Doctor - “a very
pestilent disease” (Ferdinand)
Ferdinand - “when I go to hell,
I mean to carry a bribe”
Cardinal - “thou’rt poisoned
with that book (the Bible)”
Bosola - “the weakest arm is strong enough
that strikes with the sword of justice”
Antonio - “all things have
their ends”
Antonio - “lose all,
or nothing”
Cardinal - “I would pray now,
but the devil takes away my heart”
Bosola - “we are merely the stars’ tennis balls,
struck and banded which way please them”
Ferdinand - “whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
like diamonds we are cut with our own dust”
Bosola - “Oh this
gloomy world!”
Delio - “establish this young hopeful
gentleman in’s mother’s right”
Cardinal - “wisdom begins
at the end”
Duchess - “this is flesh and blood,
sir ‘tis not the figure cut in alabaster”
Duchess - “I have so much
obedience in my blood”
Cardinal - “sorrow is held
the eldest child of sin”
‘Compassing
the earth’
‘Meditated fraud
and malice’
‘Nor hope to be myself
less miserable / By what I seek”
‘My relentless
thoughts’ (Satan)
‘Servitude
inglorious’ (Satan)
‘Spite then with
spite is best repaid’
“Danced round by
other heavens that shine” - geocentric
‘Fittest imp
of fraud’
‘Subtlest
beast’
‘Curled many a wanton wreath
in sight of Eve, to lure her eye’
‘Sweet repast,
or sound repose’
‘Hellish rancour
imminent’
‘O much deceived…
hapless Eve’
‘Let us divide
our labours’
‘Our pleasant
task’
‘Adam r
relented’
‘Safest and seemliest by
her husband stays’
‘danger and
dishonour lurk’
‘Her graceful
innocence’
‘All pleasure
to destroy’
‘Words replete
with guile’
‘Impregned with
reason’
‘Sovereign
mistress’
‘Thy celestial
beauty’
‘To keep ye
low and ignorant’
‘Ye shall be
as gods’
‘Rash
hand’
‘Greedily she
engorged’
‘eating
death’
‘And render me
more equal’
‘Horror
chill’
‘He scrupl’d not to eat,
against his better knowledge’
‘Defaced,
deflowered’
‘Earth felt
the wound’
‘Nature gave
a second groan’
‘Carnal desire
inflaming’
‘Appetite…usurping
over sovereign reason’
‘Mutual
accusation’
‘The heinous and despiteful act…
was known in heaven’
‘[nor] touch with lightest moment of impulse
his free will’
‘Manifold
in sin’
‘Mortal
sentence’
‘Mild
judge’
‘Man himself to
judge man fallen’
‘flock of
ravenous fowl’ (Satan, Sin and Death’
Satan makes Eve ‘doubt’
the ‘virtue’ of the fruit
‘to thy husband’s will
thine shall submit’
‘upon thy belly grovelling
thou shalt go’
Johnson - “Milton had a Turkish
contempt for women’
‘so spake
the patriarch’
‘fairest unsupported flower,
from her best prop so far’
‘fondly overcome
with female charm’
‘Thou shalt not
eat thereof’
‘why do I
overlive’
‘crooked
by nature’ (Eve)
‘thy
suppliant’ (Eve)
‘lowly
plight’
‘this cursed
world’
Webster loves the ‘easy levity and
infantile simplicity of spontaneous wickedness’ (Swinburne)
Ferdinand’s madness a ‘judicial violation
of the laws of nature’ (Swinburne)
Webster’s goal ‘not truth,
but effect’ (Kingsley)
Webster’s characters ‘mere passions
or humours in a human form’ (Kingsley)
‘drenching the
stage in blood’ (Archer)
‘acute
moral anguish’ (Symonds)
Webster had a firm grip on ‘the essential qualities
of diseased and guilty human nature’ (Symonds)
Ferdinand ‘a criminal
in action but not in constitution’ (Poel)
Bosola experiences a ‘growing crisis in his personality
between cynicism and compassion’ (Gibbons)
Duchess has ‘innocence of abundant life
in a sick and melancholy society’ (Frye)
Duchess’ ‘invisible presence continues to be
the most vital character in the play’ (Frye)
Duchess destroyed by ‘heartless authoritarian
regime of her brothers’ (Morrisson)
Malfi ‘radical, and electrifying
critique of Jacobean society’ (Morrisson)
Duchess is ‘caring mother, passionate lover,
loyal wife, defiant sister, tortured victim’ (Stokes)
Dumb show ‘physical manifestation
of madness’ (Stokes)
Duchess shows ‘final, maternal
solicitude’ before death (Wheale)
Bosola ‘an outsider,
both literally and metaphorically’ (Lucy Webster)
Cardinal and Ferdinand ‘tenaciously sought
to maintain the status quo’ (Weatherall)
Antonio sees Duchess as ‘beacon
of rectitude’, society doesn’t (Weatherall)
Bosola ‘impersonal
agent of death’ (Bowes)
Webster always saw ‘the skull
beneath the skin’ (T.S. Eliot)
Malfi - ‘events are not within control,
nor are our human desires’ (Edwards)
Malfi - ‘deformed notion
of ethics’ (Jack)
Webster’s writing features ‘cynicism,
disgust and despair’ (Watson)
Malfi has no ‘close-knit
logical unity’, but of Jacobean interest (Lucas)
Webster saw world as ‘incurably
corrupt’ (Cecil)
Victims in DoM ‘swept into the turmoil
set up by the furious energy of the wicked’ (Cecil)
Webster - ‘the hell that concerned him
was here on Earth’ (Muller)
PL has ‘impressive pomp
and volume’ (Leavis)
‘Milton writes English
like a dead language’ (Eliot)
The devil is not a hero, ‘Milton never
intended to have one’ (Addison)
PL - ‘at once delight
and horror on us seize’ (Marvel)
PL - ‘subversive
potential’ (Kean)
PL - ‘a beautiful
and grand curiosity’ (Keats)
Milton was ‘of the devil’s
party without knowing it’ (Blake)
Devil ‘as a moral being
[is] far superior to god’ (Percy Shelley)
Great challenge for Milton’s early readers was ‘to divorce
his poetry from his prose’, now hard to reunite (Von Maltzahn)
PL - ‘abrasive attack
on such conformity’ (Empson)
PL - ‘the miscarriage of revolutionary ideals
lies in transition from good to bad motivation’ (Newlyn)
PL - modern psychology underestimates conviction of being ‘called by God
and empowered by his spirit’ (McColley)
PL reading experience mirrors doctrinal message, reader who falls for Satan’s rhetoric ‘displays again
the weaknesses of Adam’ (Fish)
PL - ‘patriarchal aetiology that defines
a solitary father God as only creator in all things’ (Gilbert and Gubar)
PL expresses ‘long
misogynistic tradition’ (Gilbert and Gubar)
PL - ‘the full weight of western culture lies behind
the identification of Eve as subordinate to Adam’ (Froula)
PL - traditional scala naturae is a fixed chain, Milton;s is
‘dynamic’ (Fowler)
Fall’s legacy is ‘distancing
the relationship’ of God and man (Blessington)
PL - ‘error is a lapse of mind and,
like nonsense, cannot be understood’ (Reid)
‘Adam fell
by uxoriousness’ (C.S. Lewis)
Love chase creates a ‘fragile knot
of woven narcissism’ (Kerrigan and Braden)
In prelapsarian existence, Adam and Eve in ‘hopeless position of old age
pensioners enjoying perpetual youth’ (Tillyard)
Eve different as ‘she takes
her work seriously’ (McColley)
In prelapsarian bliss, Milton used ‘the mingled
beauties of sight and scent’ (Ricks)
Eve ‘allows herself to believe
she is ignorant when tempted’ (Bennett)
Pl - ignorance ‘an illusion
penetrable by reason’ (Bennett)
Satan acts ‘simply because
he is evil’ (Evans)
Pl - ‘evil is not just destructive,
it is self-destructive’ (Evans)
‘Milton genuinely considered
God in need of a defence’ (Empson)
Satan undergoes ‘progressive degradation’ from high,
noble angel to a ‘mere peeping Tom’ (C.S. Lewis)
Satan driven ‘by a sense
of injured merit’ (Gibney)
God a ‘vengeful
tyrant’ (Gibney)
Milton put’s ‘the Protestant rhetoric of
legitimate rebellion against a King’ in Satan’s mouth, but has him take it too far to legitimise discussion (Bryson)
PL - ‘rallying cry
for the overthrow of God himself’ (Bryson)
