Revenger's Flashcards
Vindice uses Gloriana’s skull when he’s killing the duke
“Kiss his lips to death”
Antonio finds comfort in his dead wife’s chastity
“This is my comfort… That, being an old man, I’d a wife so chaste.”
Vindice wonders why those who sin aren’t immediately punished (after talking to Lussurioso)
“Is there no thunder left, or is’s kept up / In stock for heavier vengeance”
Vindice claims that Gratiana cannot call herself a mother
“Thou dost usurp that title now by fraud”
Vindice tries to explain to Antonio that his wife’s death has been avenged
“The rape of your lady has been ‘quited / with death on death”
The duke poisoned Gratiana for not having sex with him
“Because thy purer part would not consent / unto his palsy-lust”
Gratiana thinks women are weak
“We are so weak, their words can overthrow us”
Gold and lust are inextricably linked
“Age, as in gold, in lust is covetous”
The duke is old but still lustful
“Duke: royal lecher: go grey haired adultery”
Life seems pointless to Vindice
“For since my worthy fathers funeral / My life’s unnatural to me”
Vindice studies his fiance’s skull
“Thou sallow picture of my poisoned love”
The duke disguises life and death
“For that which would seem treason in our lives / is laughter when we are dead”
Vindice says that sometimes tragedy is good
“When the bad bleeds, then tragedy is good”
Spurious, ambitioso and supervacuo are surprised to find the duke already dead and ambitioso says
“How now! All dead!”
The duke does not want to die for religious reason
“Take me not in sleep/ I have great sin”
Hippolitto asks if Vindice is still in mourning
“Still sighing o’er death’s visage?”
The duke says he is constantly under threat
“It is our fate / to live in fear and to die to live in hate”
Antonio sends Vindice away for fear of treason
“Such an old man as he! / you that would murder him would murder me”
Thunder cracks when Vidice has killed the duke in the final scene
“Mark; thunder! Dost thy cue, thou big-voiced crier”
Women are easily fooled
“Their sex is easy in belief”
Vindice says that his dead fiancé was naturally beautiful
“So far beyond the artificial shine / of any woman’s bought complexion”
Women are weak as sin is profitable
“Maids and their honours are like poor beginners, were sin not rich, there would be fewer sinners”
The duke’s youngest son has disgraced the leaders
“Thrown ink upon the forehead of the state”
When Lussurioso enters the dukes bed chamber he says that the long says he will overthrow him
“This boy that should be myself after me/ would be myself before me”
