Duke critics Flashcards
1
Q
Rosalind Parks on the Duke
A
He “contrives how to elude those very laws he has been so desirous of having executed”
2
Q
G Wilson Knight (19th cent) on the Duke
A
“The duke is lit with divine suggestion, controlling the play from start to finish”
3
Q
G Wilson Knight (19th cent) on the Duke’s role
A
“The Duke, like Jesus, is a prophet for a new order of ethics”
4
Q
G Wilson Knight (19th cent)
A
“Christ-like”
5
Q
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (18th cent) on powerful people
A
“ignorant and unthinking”
