The Duchess Of Malfi Critics Flashcards
1
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Theatre Critic Liz Schafer - duchess torture in act 4, scene 2
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“Something of a slow-motion snuff movie about it all.”
2
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Kate Aughterton: Duchess’ independence
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“Despite her political sovereignty, her brothers assume a patriarchal control over her body and sexuality, an assumption which extends over her political state.”
3
Q
Dympa Callaghan: female desire
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In the renaissance, a female desire seen as ‘a disease and a monstrous abnormality.”
4
Q
Lisa Jardine, wilfulness
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“She remarries a social inferior to emphasise the contrast between “lust and duty”
5
Q
Cecilia daileader: Duchess
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Called the Duchess “a female Christ”
6
Q
Lord David Cecil - Webster
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“the world as seen [by Webster] is of its nature incurably corrupt”.
