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”
The nobles at the ball were disguised
“Putting on better faces than their own”
Vidice changes his appearance
“I’ll quickly turn in to another”
Castiza is angry at the pandar’s suggestion
”[ a box o’ the ear to vindice]”
Castiza promises to hurt the next man who tries to corrupt her
“I swore I’d put anger in my hand and pass the virgin limits of myself”
The duchess is in love with spurio
“And here comes he whom my heart points unto”
Vindice discusses the importance of knowledge
“For banquets, ease and laugher / can make great men, as greatness goes by clay, / but wise men, little are more great than they”
The laws strict like a woman
“The law’s a woman” (V)
“He deserves to die” (C)
Vindice father died of “discontent” due to the duke
“The duke did much deject him”
Vindice’s father has strong opinions on women
“Wives are but made to go to bed and feed”
Rape is biblically unacceptable
“The very core of lust!”
“Double adultery!”
The YS does not show remorse
“My faults being sport, let me die in jest”
The YS says rape is natural
Compelled by “flesh and blood”
The duke has power
“One of his single words would quote have freed my youngest dearest son”
Spurio claims the duke is the cause of his actions
“Adultery is my nature”
Money is better than words
“Words are but great men’s blanks”
Society is sexual corrupt
“Oh hour of incest”
Antonio says his wife was uncorrupted previously
“A fair comely building newly fallen”
Antonio is deeply effected by his wife’s death
“Strikes man out of me”
Antonio uses dramatic structures in discussing his wife’s death
“Dead!
Her honour first drank poison…”
Piero says revenge will better Antonio’s emotions
“No doubt our grief and yours may one day court it / when we are more familiar with revenge”
Gratiana says that virginity is bad
“Paradise locked up”
Lussurioso ironically mentions danger in there being another man
“Now we’re an even number: a third nan’s dangerous / especially her brother”
Vindice shows the importance of family loyalty
“Now I must blister my soul, be forsworn, or Shane the woman that received me first”
Vindice longs to kill the duchess and spurio in the midst of sin
“To kill ‘em doubled, when they’re heaped - be soft my lord”
The duke recognises his sin
“My hairs are white and yet my sins are green”
YS says women enjoy rape
“I die for that which every woman loves”
