PL/V CRIT

Question 1

V Wickham- mosca

Answer 1

“Mosca functions as a… conventional vice figure”

Question 2

V Knapp- mosca

Answer 2

Mosca is “nothing but roles”

Question 3

V Hiscock: - view on world of V

Answer 3

V is a world “without morality”

Question 4

V Campbell: - characters

Answer 4

Characters= “on one level repugnant”

Question 5

V Knapp: Volp God

Answer 5

“Volpone is a satanic challenger to God’s order and society’s”

Question 6

V Hinchliffe: renais

Answer 6

“perversion of Renaissance culture”

Question 7

V Hiscock generate

Answer 7

aims to “generate moral impuses”

Question 8

V Steggle: pre-rape

Answer 8

pre-rape: “mood is one of sheer fun”

Question 9

Tyrone Guthrie’s 1964

Answer 9

• applauded the rape

- replaced wafer with coin in parody of a mass

Question 10

Campbell: V and PL

Answer 10

Milton and Jonson are able to “induce a sympathetic understanding of villainy without sentimentalising the villain”

Question 11

Some critics: V’s consequence

Answer 11

Volcanoes’ treatment is too harsh for comedy

Question 12

Some critics: Volp

Answer 12

“admire him for his daring and panache”

Question 13

Some critics: V 1 word

Answer 13

“rogue”

Question 14

V Hinchliffe audience reaction to sin

Answer 14

Audience “participate with glee”

Question 15

V Leggatt audience blasphemy

Answer 15

“enjoys blasphemy for its own sake”

Question 16

V Maus: celia

Answer 16

Celia =”strong minded character” “pivotal”

Question 17

V Hinchliffe celia

Answer 17

Celia = “dull”

Question 18

V Collins simple plot

Answer 18

V = “a rich man getting richer”

Question 19

V Hinchliffe Lang :(

Answer 19

audience is “appalled” at the effect of language

Question 20

V Hinchliffe Land :)

Answer 20

“language is splendidly abused”

Question 21

V Hinchliffe passion

Answer 21

“passion is not appeased by leisure but only by novelty”

Question 22

M Carey: evil?

Answer 22

“Milton’s effort to encapsulate evil in Satan was not successful”

Question 23

M Carey: critics genrally

Answer 23

“Satanist critics generally emphasise Satan’s courage, while anti-Satanists his selfishness”

Question 24

M Waldock E mood

Answer 24

“Eve wakes in an independent mood”

Question 25

M Tillyard initiative

Answer 25

“Eve takes and keeps the initiative”

Question 26

M Peter sexist dickhead

Answer 26

“Adam lets Eve have her way”

Question 27

M Empson men/ women

Answer 27

“Milton though that men ought to control women”

Question 28

M Dr Johnson M view of women

Answer 28

m views women as “insubordinate and inferior”

Question 29

M Gilbert view of women

Answer 29

m presents women as “other”

Question 30

M McColley un bouc emissaire

Answer 30

“broke the stereotypical scapegoating of Eve as a temptress”

Question 31

M McColley E motives

Answer 31

Eve has “responsible motives”

Question 32

M McColley portrait

Answer 32

milton’s is a “loving portrait of Eve”

Question 33

M Weston E reason/ emotion

Answer 33

“her passions… are ruling her reason”

Question 34

M Weston E deception

Answer 34

Eve is not “motivated entirely by a calculation to deceive”

Question 35

M CS Lewis

Answer 35

Eve “murders” Adam

Question 36

M Burden Adam reason emotion

Answer 36

Adam’s justification is “not reason but rationalisation”

Question 37

M Fowler Adam is a little crybaby

Answer 37

Adam “wants solace at any price”

Question 38

M Davies Adam –> Eve

Answer 38

“She was created for him, and he is in love with her”

Question 39

M Turner Eve ambtion

Answer 39

Eve has “a craving for male supremacy”