DOM A05 Flashcards
(17 cards)
“A sorry play”
Peppy’s
“repulsive themes and characters”
Lee
“the structure of the play is yet to be vindicated”
Brown
“malcontent is a staple figure of late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama”
Mkernan
“the world as seen [by Webster] is of its nature incurable corrupt”
Lord David Cecil
“Webster’s God, unlike his devil, is a hidden one”
Smith
“no widow, if given the opportunity, should forbear the carnal act”
Swetnam
“the nearest the Shakespeare”
Hazlitt
“horror is accumulated to an overwhelming and insupportable height”
Hazlitt
“revenge, hatred, villainy, incest and murder upon murder…. and they handle these horrors with little or no moral purpose”
Kingsley
“tragedies of blood”
Hamilton
“Webster was much possessed by death”
Eliot
“it is Ferdinand who is unsure of himself”
Calderwood
“the brothers picture of the Duchess is a projection of the evil in their own minds”
Brennan
“[Duchess] seeks private happiness at the expense of public stability”
Bliss
“The Duchess and Cariola comforting each other in prison, showing female solidarity in the face of male tyranny”
Andrew’s on the 2018 RSC production
Past production, shows sophisticated family, the attendants holding two youngest, eldest son stood with D and A, A with hand on his shoulder as if he is putting their faith in their sons hands
1960 Donald McWhinnie production of the Duchess, Antonio, her children and attendants
