DOM and PL critics condensed

Question 1

PL

Johnson Women

Answer 1

“Milton shows ‘contempt for females, as subordinate and inferior’ - Johnson

Question 2

PL

Litt Desire

Answer 2

“all men fall victim to self-deception when they are tempted sufficiently” - Dorothy Litt

Question 3

PL

Weston Flattery

Answer 3

Eve’s “passions, as a result of flattery, are ruling her reason” - Weston

Question 4

PL

Fowler Love

Answer 4

Adam “becomes corrupt because he refuses to divorce Eve” - Fowler

Question 5

PL

Tanimoto Inferior

Answer 5

“if Eve is created to be inferior to Adam, how can she help him? - Tanimoto

Question 6

PL

Sanger Milton and feminism

Answer 6

“Milton does not show a hatred of women, but also does not show a willingness to elevate them.”
“This is merely sexism - nothing more, nothing less” - Sanger

Question 7

PL

Gilbert Eve Satanic

Answer 7

“Milton’s Eve is Adam’s inferior and satanically inspired” - Gilbert (that Milton is a misogynist)

Question 8

PL

Bennett Evil and Good

Answer 8

“Evil is the absence of pure good and the experience of evil are mutually exclusive” - Bennett

Question 9

PL

Tillyard Fallen

Answer 9

“They are both virtually fallen before the official temptation has begun” - Tillyard
- Eve dreams of going to heaven and wants to comprehend Evil
- Adam is swayed by Eve’s beauty

Question 10

DOM

Painter Duchess

Answer 10

views the Duchess as a “Lusty Widow”

Question 11

DOM

Callaghan Victim/Protagonist

Answer 11

“the figure of the Duchess combines the roles of tragic protagonist and tragic victim”

Question 12

DOM

Callaghan Autonomy

Answer 12

“widowed women potentically achieved auronomy from men upon the death of their husband”

Question 13

DOM

Sloane Bosola

Answer 13

“(he) has both a propensity for good as well as evil”

Question 14

DOM

Scott societal bounds

Answer 14

“the Duchess does not transgress Jacobean societal boundaries on widowhood, but transgresses only her brothers opinions on how she should conduct her private life”

Question 15

DOM

Scott Ferdinand

Answer 15

“Ferdinand corrupt desire to control both the public and private life of the Duchess ultimately ends in death and madness”

Question 16

DOM

Hamilton Pity

Answer 16

“Her suffering excite our sympathetic pity”

popularity of tragedies, conventions of a jacobean one

Question 17

DOM

Lewes Nightmare

Answer 17

“The Duchess of Malfi is a nightmare not a tragedy”

critical of the play

Question 18

DOM

Murray love

Answer 18

“not only is their love utilised to contrast it with the discord of the brothers but it is also mutual”

true love vs infactuation

Question 19

PL

Diane McColley Temptress

Answer 19

‘[Milton] broke the stereotypical scapegoating of Eve as essentially a temptress and uniquely gave her responsible motives for her independent movements on the morning of the Fall.’

Question 20

PL

Shelley Satan

Answer 20

‘Nothing can exceed the energy and magnificence of the character of Satan as expressed in Paradise Lost.’

‘Believes Satan is ‘the hero of Paradise Lost’

Question 21

PL

Shelley Devil

Answer 21

‘Milton’s Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God’

(Milton’s Satan is better than God, because Satan suffers hardship and God is secure in his power, as well as inflicting more suffering onto Satan. This infliction isn’t to make Satan repent, but just to torture.)

Question 22

PL

T.S Eliot

Answer 22

‘Milton writes English like a dead language.’

Question 23

PL

McEvoy Jealousy

Answer 23

‘Jealousy then motivates the fallen Eve’s desire to make Adam fall too’

Question 24

PL

Beer heroism

Answer 24

Milton ‘demonstrates her [Eve’s] quiet heroism”’

Question 25

# PL Empson God

Answer 25

'The reason why the poem is so good is that it makes God so bad.'

Question 26

# PL Johnson Women

Answer 26

'Milton thought women made only for obedience'

Question 27

# DOM Patrick Lee Religion

Answer 27

'juxtaposed the classical idea of fickle gods and the necessity of revenge with a Christian understanding of salvation and God as the ultimate dispenser of justice.'

Question 28

# DOM F.L.Lucas incest | in 1924

Answer 28

'Ferdinand potentially in love with his sister.'

Question 29

# DOM Whighams summary of Ferdinand

Answer 29

'a threatened aristocrat, frightened by the contamination of his ascriptive social rank.'

Question 30

# DOM Callaghan Eve and Duchess

Answer 30

'repeating the historic transgression of eve.'

Question 31

# DOM Whigham Tragedy

Answer 31

"The duchess is the first fully tragic figure in Renaissance drama"

Question 32

# DOM Barbara Todd Widow | ALSO V GOOD

Answer 32

"the remarriage of any widow confronted every man with the threatening prospect of his own death and the entry of another in his place"

Question 33

# DOM Bradbrook Bosola

Answer 33

"With all his many roles, Bosola is never permitted the luxury of being a self"

Question 34

# DOM Jankowski Female rule

Answer 34

"the presence of Mary Tudor and Mary Stuart on British thrones served to point out to political theorists especially that no language existed for describing the nature of female rule."

Question 35

# DOM Emma Smith Bosola

Answer 35

"Bosola becomes a figure of class anxiety in The Duchess of Malfi" and represents "the play's ultimate ambivalence in the story it tells". Webster engages in an "evasion of moral judgement" - "The Duchess of Malfi gives us a kind of social autopsy into familial, religious and emotional corruption", "the play's inhumanity is its most compelling feature"

Question 36

# DOM T.S. Elliot Skull

Answer 36

Webster "saw the skull beneath the skin".

Question 37

# DOM What did the RSC team describe as their focus?

Answer 37

Designer Naomi Dawson - one of an almost entirely female creative team - says in the programme that the intended focus is on "masculinity and madness".

Question 38

# DOM How did the 2018 RSC production display the Cardinal's relationship to Julia?

Answer 38

He sexually assaults her.

Question 39

# DOM How is Bosola's ultimate guilt displayed in the 2018 RSC production?

Answer 39

He places a hankerchief over the dead Duchess' face.

Question 40

# DOM What was the set of the 2018 production?

Answer 40

Naomi Dawson's stark set design is an indoor sports pitch, backed by scaffolding from which a testosterone-pumped ensemble of men leer, animal-like, from the darkness.

Question 41

# DOM Christina Luckyj Revenge

Answer 41

'The Duchess of Malfi inverts the usual structure of revenge tragedy...Webster arouses sympathy for the objects of revenge rather than the revenger".