TRT A05 (Critics)

Question 1

Ekeblad (religion)

Answer 1

“the play is permeated by a kind of grotesque humour”

Question 2

Moretti

Answer 2

“Jacobean lust spares no one and thereby renders everyone equal”

Question 3

Eliot (mockery and satire & social criticism)

Answer 3

“Middleton flashes a ‘kind of satiric wit’ unknown to Tourner.”

Question 4

Foakes (satire & social criticism, appetite and crime)

Answer 4

“satirising the extravagances and corruptions of the court of James I

Question 5

Walsh (satire & social criticism and morality)

Answer 5

Vindice ‘usurps, irrevocably, the mind and soul of the revenger’

Question 6

Stallybrass (women as seductresses and temptresses)

Answer 6

“Death removes Gloriana from the corrupting realm of desire”

Question 7

Evans (women as seductresses and temptresses)

Answer 7

“Gratiana’s transformation symbolises the possibility of at least individual regeneration in the dark world presented in the play”

Question 8

Marxist reading (women as seductresses and temptresses)

Answer 8

Gratiana is a single mother who has been widowed, trying to survive under the inequality of the feudal system, acting out of desperation

Question 9

Foakes (pessimism & bleakness and comedy)

Answer 9

Ending could be ‘merely cynical in making morality, if not life itself, seem futile’

Question 10

Smith (comedy)

Answer 10

“This play undercuts moral sentential with a radical and perverse black comedy”

Question 11

Moretti (violence)

Answer 11

“Jacobean lust spares no one and thereby renders everyone equal”