Revenger's

Question 0

Vindice uses Gloriana’s skull when he’s killing the duke

Answer 0

“Kiss his lips to death”

Question 1

Antonio finds comfort in his dead wife’s chastity

Answer 1

“This is my comfort… That, being an old man, I’d a wife so chaste.”

Question 2

Vindice wonders why those who sin aren’t immediately punished (after talking to Lussurioso)

Answer 2

“Is there no thunder left, or is’s kept up / In stock for heavier vengeance”

Question 3

Vindice claims that Gratiana cannot call herself a mother

Answer 3

“Thou dost usurp that title now by fraud”

Question 4

Vindice tries to explain to Antonio that his wife’s death has been avenged

Answer 4

“The rape of your lady has been ‘quited / with death on death”

Question 5

The duke poisoned Gratiana for not having sex with him

Answer 5

“Because thy purer part would not consent / unto his palsy-lust”

Question 6

Gratiana thinks women are weak

Answer 6

“We are so weak, their words can overthrow us”

Question 7

Gold and lust are inextricably linked

Answer 7

“Age, as in gold, in lust is covetous”

Question 8

The duke is old but still lustful

Answer 8

“Duke: royal lecher: go grey haired adultery”

Question 9

Life seems pointless to Vindice

Answer 9

“For since my worthy fathers funeral / My life’s unnatural to me”

Question 10

Vindice studies his fiance’s skull

Answer 10

“Thou sallow picture of my poisoned love”

Question 11

The duke disguises life and death

Answer 11

“For that which would seem treason in our lives / is laughter when we are dead”

Question 12

Vindice says that sometimes tragedy is good

Answer 12

“When the bad bleeds, then tragedy is good”

Question 13

Spurious, ambitioso and supervacuo are surprised to find the duke already dead and ambitioso says

Answer 13

“How now! All dead!”

Question 14

The duke does not want to die for religious reason

Answer 14

“Take me not in sleep/ I have great sin”

Question 15

Hippolitto asks if Vindice is still in mourning

Answer 15

“Still sighing o’er death’s visage?”

Question 16

The duke says he is constantly under threat

Answer 16

“It is our fate / to live in fear and to die to live in hate”

Question 17

Antonio sends Vindice away for fear of treason

Answer 17

“Such an old man as he! / you that would murder him would murder me”

Question 18

Thunder cracks when Vidice has killed the duke in the final scene

Answer 18

“Mark; thunder! Dost thy cue, thou big-voiced crier”

Question 19

Women are easily fooled

Answer 19

“Their sex is easy in belief”

Question 20

Vindice says that his dead fiancé was naturally beautiful

Answer 20

“So far beyond the artificial shine / of any woman’s bought complexion”

Question 21

Women are weak as sin is profitable

Answer 21

“Maids and their honours are like poor beginners, were sin not rich, there would be fewer sinners”

Question 22

The duke’s youngest son has disgraced the leaders

Answer 22

“Thrown ink upon the forehead of the state”

Question 23

When Lussurioso enters the dukes bed chamber he says that the long says he will overthrow him

Answer 23

“This boy that should be myself after me/ would be myself before me”

Question 24

The nobles at the ball were disguised

Answer 24

“Putting on better faces than their own”

Question 25

Vidice changes his appearance

Answer 25

“I’ll quickly turn in to another”

Question 26

Castiza is angry at the pandar’s suggestion

Answer 26

”[ a box o’ the ear to vindice]”

Question 27

Castiza promises to hurt the next man who tries to corrupt her

Answer 27

“I swore I’d put anger in my hand and pass the virgin limits of myself”

Question 28

The duchess is in love with spurio

Answer 28

“And here comes he whom my heart points unto”

Question 29

Vindice discusses the importance of knowledge

Answer 29

“For banquets, ease and laugher / can make great men, as greatness goes by clay, / but wise men, little are more great than they”

Question 30

The laws strict like a woman

Answer 30

“The law’s a woman” (V)

“He deserves to die” (C)

Question 31

Vindice father died of “discontent” due to the duke

Answer 31

“The duke did much deject him”

Question 32

Vindice’s father has strong opinions on women

Answer 32

“Wives are but made to go to bed and feed”

Question 33

Rape is biblically unacceptable

Answer 33

“The very core of lust!”

“Double adultery!”

Question 34

The YS does not show remorse

Answer 34

“My faults being sport, let me die in jest”

Question 35

The YS says rape is natural

Answer 35

Compelled by “flesh and blood”

Question 36

The duke has power

Answer 36

“One of his single words would quote have freed my youngest dearest son”

Question 37

Spurio claims the duke is the cause of his actions

Answer 37

“Adultery is my nature”

Question 38

Money is better than words

Answer 38

“Words are but great men’s blanks”

Question 39

Society is sexual corrupt

Answer 39

“Oh hour of incest”

Question 40

Antonio says his wife was uncorrupted previously

Answer 40

“A fair comely building newly fallen”

Question 41

Antonio is deeply effected by his wife’s death

Answer 41

“Strikes man out of me”

Question 42

Antonio uses dramatic structures in discussing his wife’s death

Answer 42

“Dead!

Her honour first drank poison…”

Question 43

Piero says revenge will better Antonio’s emotions

Answer 43

“No doubt our grief and yours may one day court it / when we are more familiar with revenge”

Question 44

Gratiana says that virginity is bad

Answer 44

“Paradise locked up”

Question 45

Lussurioso ironically mentions danger in there being another man

Answer 45

“Now we’re an even number: a third nan’s dangerous / especially her brother”

Question 46

Vindice shows the importance of family loyalty

Answer 46

“Now I must blister my soul, be forsworn, or Shane the woman that received me first”

Question 47

Vindice longs to kill the duchess and spurio in the midst of sin

Answer 47

“To kill ‘em doubled, when they’re heaped - be soft my lord”

Question 48

The duke recognises his sin

Answer 48

“My hairs are white and yet my sins are green”

Question 49

YS says women enjoy rape

Answer 49

“I die for that which every woman loves”