Violence Flashcards
Vittoria, 5.5
“Oh my greatest sins lay in my blood, now my blood pays for’t”
Lodovico, 1.1
“I’ll make Italian cut-works in their guts”
Marcello, 5.1
“Why doth this devil haunt you”
“She is your shame”
Semantic field
“Rotted” “devil” “maggots” “flies”
Stage direction, 4.2
“[She throws herself upon the bed and weeps]”
Isabella, 2.1
“Dig that strumpet’s eyes out”
Lodovico, 5.6
“I limb’d this night piece and it was my best”
Brachiano, 5.3
“On pain of death, let no man name Death to me: It is a word infinitely terrible”
Maria Aberg, RSC 2014
“It’s murder on the dancefloor”
Dominic Cavendish [2014]
“The violence of passion”
George Bernard Shaw
The play has “no ray of noble feeling, no touch of faith, beauty or even common kindness… From beginning to end”
T. S. Eliot
Webster is “possessed by death”
Brachiano 4.2
“I’ll cut her into atomies”