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Tis Pity Quotes Flashcards

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1
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Giovanni describes Annabella’s virginity as a

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‘pretty toy called maidenhead’

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Florio right after Hippolita’s death

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‘Was e’er so vile a creature!’

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Richardetto right after Hippolita’s death

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‘Here’s the end

Of lust and pride.’

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Hippolita

Break from male power

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‘Freely I here remit all interest
I e’er could claim, and give you back your vows’
Dismisses her wedding vows- early symbol of feminisim (Littler)

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Giovanni explaining Annabella’s death

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‘This dagger’s point plough’d up

Her fruitful womb’

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6
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Annabella’s last lines

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‘Forgive him, Heaven — and me my sins! farewell,

Brother unkind, unkind — mercy, great Heaven! oh — oh!’

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Giovanni
Annabella’s bed
1.1

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Shall then, for that I am her brother born

My Joys be ever banished from her bed?

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Giovanni

Question to Friar about love and men

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Must I not do what all men else may – love?

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Friar

Question to Giovanni about knowledge and lust

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Hast thou left the schools
Of knowledge, to converse with lust and death?

  • personification of abstracts seem old-fashioned and rigid
  • links to 7 deadly sins, implies immediate link between lust and death
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10
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Annabella

Sees Giovanni for the first time

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…see what blessed shape
Of some celestial creature now appears?

  • idolatrous
  • alliteration
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Giovanni
Fate
1.3

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Tis not, I know, My lust, but ‘tis my fate that leads me on

-links to 1.1 where G says ‘my fate’s my god’- echo of Faustus as biblical reference is ambiguous

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12
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Giovanni

Lie to Annabella about the Church

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I have asked counsel of the holy Church,

Who tells me I may love you

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Putana

Annabella and any man

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if a young wench feel the fit upon her, let her take anybody, father or brother, all is one

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Hippolita

Revenge

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Revenge shall sweeten what my griefs have tasted

  • motif of food
  • juxtaposition
  • irony
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Friar

To Giovanni after he knows about G and A

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Peace! Thou hast told a tale whose every word

Threatens eternal slaughter to the soul

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16
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Friar

To Annabella about Giovanni’s fate in Hell

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there lies the wanton
On racks of burning steel, while in his soul
He feels the torment of his raging lust

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Vasques

To Hippolita after he poisons her

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Foolish woman, thou art now like a firebrand (burning wood), that has kindled others and burnt theyself’

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Vasques
To Hippolita
‘mistress…

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she-devil, your own mischievous treachery hath killed you’.

19
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Enter Soranzo, unbraced (with his sword drawn) and Annabella dragged in

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‘Come, strumpet, famous whore!’

Unbraced suggests madness or just had sex. Links to Hamlet

20
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Richardetto

To Philotis

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Who dies a virgin lives a saint on earth

21
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Soranzo
Insults to Annabella when he finds out she’s pregnant
5

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'adulterous veins'
'cunning whoredom'
'hot itch'
'harlot' (prostitute)
'bastard- bearing womb'
22
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Annabella

To Soranzo about why she married him

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‘twas not for love I chose you, but for honour

23
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Soranzo

Threat to Annabella anticipating her fate

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‘I’ll rip up thy heart
And find it there’
Annabella ‘do, do’

  • one word sentence
  • violence and threat
  • irony
  • confident repetition
24
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Giovanni

Just as he stabs Annabella

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‘To save thy fame, and kill thee in a kiss.Thus die and die by me, and by my hand. Revenge is mine; honour doth love command’

  • abstract nouns
  • personifications
  • sense of helplessness? lack of Free Will?
  • ‘PL’ ‘all pleasure to destroy’
25
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Giovanni

Explaining Annabella’s heart

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Tis a heart,

A heart, my Lords, in which is mine entombed

26
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Cardinal

Last lines of play

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Of one so young, so rich in Nature’s store,
Who could not say, ‘Tis pity she’s a whore?

  • rhyming couplet
  • summative comment
  • very limited appreciation
  • identity defined by sexuality
  • personification
27
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Vasques

Comment after Putana tells him about G and A

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‘To what a height of liberty in damnation hath the devil trained our age!’

28
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Vasques

To Soranzo about man

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‘Tis as manlike to bear extremities, as godlike to forgive

  • implied comparison with women
  • blasphemy?
29
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Vasques

Women in Italy

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Alas poor lady, what hath she committed which any lady in Italy in the like case would not?

30
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Florio on Annabella’s suitor/ marriage

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‘I would not have her marry wealth, but love’

31
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Friar calls Giovanni a…

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‘foolish madman!’

32
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‘one soul

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one flesh, one heart, one all’
Giovanni

Links to ‘sole Eve associate sole…’

33
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Friar’s description of G’s feelings for A

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‘leprosy of lust/ that rots thy soul’

34
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G

‘such lips

A

would tempt a saint’

  • Romeo’s sonnet when kissing Juliet
  • sibilance
  • blasphemy
35
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‘O Annabella, I am quite

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undone. ..thy immortal beauty have untuned All harmony both of my rest and life’
- links to ‘celestial Eve’ and ‘sovran mistress’

36
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‘you must either love

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or I must die.’

  • false choice
  • link to ‘certain my resolution is to die’ (Eve)
37
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Florio

‘I will not force

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my daughter ‘gainst her will’

-restrained use of patriarchal power

38
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G to A about marriage

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‘you must be married, mistress…Someone must have you’

  • alliteration
  • patriarchy and ownership
39
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Richardetto about Hippolita

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‘Thy wanton aunt in her lascivious riots’

  • derogatory language
  • ‘cast lascivious eyes’
40
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Giovanni

‘Marriage?

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Why that’s to damn her’
2.5
Goes against what he said to her earlier

41
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Bergetto

‘I can have

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wenches enough in Parma for half-a-crown apiece’

42
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G

‘A life of

A

pleasure is Elysium’

(his life with A)

  • Pagan values, rejection of Christianity
  • link to ‘yee shall be as gods’
43
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G

‘I hold

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fate / Clasped in my fist’

  • Link to Faustus, hubristic (overly arrogant)
  • ‘PL’ ‘who aspires must down as low / As high he soared’
44
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Giovanni about Annabella in Act 5 Scene 5

‘For nine months space

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in secret I enjoyed Sweet Annabella’s sheets; nine months I lived a happy monarch of her heart and her’

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