'Tis Pity Flashcards
opening line of the play
Dispute no more in this
description of G’s soul
burdened soul
description of G’s mind/ heart
the storehouse of my thoughts and heart
G’s justification of being allowed to love A
Must I not do what all men else may - love?
Friar’s cure for G’s sins
Repentance, son, and sorrow for this sin
Friar’s reaction to G’s love for A
Hast thou left the schools/ Of knowledge, to converse with lust and death?
Grimaldi’s insult to Vasques
Thou art no equal match for me
Vasques’ insult to Grimaldi
thou poor shadow of a soldier
Putana’s opinion of Soranzo
Liberal, that I know […] and a man sure
Bergetto’s childish language
mine uncle says
Putana being suggestive
They say a fool’s bauble is a lady’s playfellow
A’s first sight of G
blessed shape
celestial creature
sad aspect
A’s descriptions of G’s woeful behaviour
he beats his breast, and wipes his eyes/ Drowned all in tears
G being dramatic
I must speak, or burst
G’s decision
I’ll tell her that I love her
G indicating A is embarrassed
I hope you need not blush to walk with me
G’s classic images of love
The lily and the rose, most sweetly strange,/ Upon your dimpled cheeks do strive for change
G being pressurising to A
‘tis my destiny/ That you must either love, or I must die
G’s view of him and A as brother and sister
[they] share one beauty to a double soul
A’s description of her heart
My captive heart had long ago resolved
A’s confession of love
I blush to tell thee (but I’ll tell thee now),/ For every sigh that thou hast spent for me,/ I have sighed ten; for every tear shed twenty
Giovanni’s opinion of the love-test
I would not change this minute for Elysium
Bergetto’s childishness
[he] said he loved her almost as well as he loved parmesan
G’s opinion of virginity
this pretty toy called maidenhead/ So strange a loss, when, being lost, ‘tis nothing,/ And you are still the same
P’s reaction to G and A sleeping together
Nay, what a paradise of joy have you passed under!
H looking down on A
My birth was nobler
S’s insult to H
thou hast digressed from honest shame
R plotting against S
Soranzo is the man that hath her heart
…
I’ll provide a poison/ To dip your rapier’s point in
Friar’s reaction to G’s continued love for A
Thou hast told a tale whose every word/ Threatens eternal slaughter to the soul [...] But Heaven is angry ... thou'rt too far sold to hell
G blaming the Friar
It is a principle, which you have taught
A mocks S
S: Did you but see my heart, then you would swear -
A: That you were dead
S’s feelings about A
I’m sick, and sick to th’ heart
A’s opinion of S’s looks
if mine eyes/ Could have picked out a man amongst all those/ That sued to me, to make a husband of,/ You should have been that man
A’s promise to marry S
It shall be you or nothing
Grimaldi being cunning
Where merit cannot sway, policy must
what Philotis gives to Bergetto
sweetmeats, or dainty devices
Bergetto’s innocence
I have a monstrous swelling about my stomach
when Bergetto gets stabbed
O, I am going the wrong way sure, my belly aches so!
the Cardinal’s description of Grimaldi
He is no common ma, but nobly born
the Friar foreshadowing the reveal of the pregnancy
Long prosper in this day
an indication that A isn’t happy to be marrying S
Cheer up, my love
G’s reaction at A marrying S
to see my love/ Clipped by another, I would dare confusion/ And stand the horror of ten thousand deaths
Hippolita foreshadowing the ending
may thy bed/ Of marriage be a rack unto thy heart
S saying G didn’t love A like he did
Well he might lust, but never loved like me
S wanting revenge
all my blood/ Is fired in swift revenge
