Robin and Rafe Flashcards
1
Q
“sirrah, boy, come hither”
A
Scene 4, Wagner
AO1: Archaic term for inferiors
AO2: Displays Robin’s lower social class
AO3: Great Chain of Being
2
Q
“Sweet Rafe, let us clean our boots […] and then our conjuring, in the devil’s name”
A
Scene 6, Robin
AO1: Epithet
AO2: Fondness for Rafe, displays their relationship is a close-knit one
AO2: Allegory for the Age of Discover
AO3: Elizabethan Golden Age
3
Q
transformation into an “ape” and a “dog”
A
AO1: Bestial Imagery
AO1: Allegorical
AO2: Displays their demise in a similar way to Faustus
AO3: Animals and their symbolism in Renaissance art (Ape = copycat of Faustus / Ape holding apple = fall of man and morality play) (Dog = Rafe’s loyalty to Robin)
