DoM AO5

Question 1

Sims

Answer 1

‘We are bound to warm to someone who is so inclined to let her heart rule her head’

Question 2

Fogster

Answer 2

man = ‘woman’s servant in love but master in marriage’

Question 3

Desens (21st C)

Answer 3

Duchess tries to use ‘social difference to offset gender difference’

Question 4

Kermode (contemporary)

Answer 4

‘a tragedy of the difference between self-knowledge and self-deception’

Question 5

Helen Mirren’s Duchess (20th C)

Answer 5

praised for having the ‘capacity for affection and her deep sexual awareness’

Question 6

20th century National Theatre production

Answer 6

Cardinal slaps Duchess, accompanied by a blackout, screams, thunder, and lightning

Question 7

Weston

Answer 7

‘all characters play the game, but Bosola plays it best’

Question 8

Phelp’s production 1850

Answer 8

madmen noises = Duchess’s screams

Question 9

Poel (20th C)

Answer 9

Julia ‘designed’ to bring light to ‘the chaste love of the Duchess’

Question 10

Bradbrook (modern)

Answer 10

Cardinal knows that he is in hell already

against marrying out of class

Question 11

Jankowski

Answer 11

‘completely on her body politic’

Question 12

Leah S. Marcus

Answer 12

Antonio’s puritanism = only religious force that matters

Question 13

Belton

Answer 13

‘a man who loves virtue’

‘has never depended on luck or the favour of princes for his happiness’

Question 14

Belsey

Answer 14

‘hiring of a spy evokes the temptation and fall of mankind’

Question 15

Oakes

Answer 15

‘becomes the woman carved in stone that Ferdinand wanted her to be’

Question 16

Bloom

Answer 16

F = ‘the disease’