Scholarship Flashcards
Wilbur Dunkel Lucio
‘the function of Lucio is to keep us informed and unite the characters’
Stacy Magdenz
‘[Angelo] is penitent but still prefers death to redemption’
Wilson Knight Isabella
‘the frosty lack of sympathy of a self-regarding puritanism’
Wilson Knight the Duke
‘the Duke’s original leniency is shown to be right’
‘the Duke, like Jesus, is the prophet of a new order of ethics’
Wilson Knight Angelo
‘[Angelo’s] chief faults are self deception and pride in his own righteousness’
redeemed at the end- ‘he has become human’
Irene McGarrity
‘[all characters] struggle towards an ideal virtue while acting on mythical vice’s terms, forgetting about humanity’
Robert Wilson
‘marriage as [an] instrument for controlling desire’
Lawrence Isabella
‘i do not think there is any doubt that Isabella turns to him with a heavenly and yielding smile’
Lawrence the Duke
‘essentially a puppet’
Chambers Angelo
‘cold-hearted, self-righteous pig’
John Cox women
‘men only’ play- women only have roles to serve men
Psychoanalytical interpretation
Freudian theory: Isabella and Angelo sexually repressed- explains Isabella’s unintentional innuendos
Charlotte Lennox Isabella
‘vixen’
Hazlitt Barnadine
‘a fine antithesis to the morality and hypocrisy of the other characters’
Hazlitt Claudio
‘detestable’
Cowden Clarke Isabella
‘one of the most beautiful-souled among Shakespeare’s beautifully-souled women’
Wilson Knight on the whole play
religious allegory- read as a parable, like Jesus’ teachings
Stevenson Isabella
‘she is the living antidote to all human charity’
Austen the Duke
‘a puppeteer’
Samuel Johnson Angelo
‘every reader feels some indignation when he is spared’
Hazlitt the Duke
‘more absorbed in his own plots and gravity than anxious for the well-being of the state’
Harriet Hawkins Isabella
‘the feminine counterpart of Angelo’
David Holbrook Angelo
‘sex maniac’
Charles Marowitz women
‘No one treated women with more exclusive cruelty than Shakespeare’
