Power Flashcards
Vittoria, 3.2
“Ha, whore? What’s that?”
“This character scapes me”
Francisco, 2.1 [on Vittoria]
“Lust carries her sharp wit”
Conjurer, 2.2
“Both flowers and weeds spring when the sun is warm,
And great men so great good or else great harm”
Brachiano, 1.2
“I’ll seat you above law and above scandal”
Gasparo 1.1 [on Lodovico’s enemies]
“Men of princely rank”
Cornelia, 1.2
“The lives of princes should like dials move,
Whose regular example is so strong,
They make the times by them go right or wrong”
Brachiano and Monticelao
“Sweetmeats” “Poison’d perfumes”
Vittoria, 3.2
“Personate masculine virtue”
Michael Lindsey Hogg’s performance at the Old Vic, 1976
“The stage representing a large expensive hotel”
Gale Edwards, 1996
“Women were little other than manipulated pawns in the power games of powerful male relatives”
Flamineo,
“Women are more willing and more gloriously chaste when they are least restrained of their liberty”
Paradox of liberty and chaste, polluting audiences mind on women
