DOM/PL AO5

Question 1

DOM - Knox (1558)

Answer 1

‘The nature of female rule is ‘un-natural’

Question 2

DOM - Pepys (1666)

Answer 2

‘[The Duchess of Malfi] is a sorry play’

Question 3

PL - Genesis

Answer 3

She took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it’

Question 4

PL - John Milton - Areopagitica (1644)

Answer 4

‘We bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity’

Question 5

PL - John Milton - Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)

Answer 5

‘Turning to tyranny [kings] may be… lawfully disposed and punished’

Question 6

PL - John Milton (1667)

Answer 6

‘The poem was written to ‘justify the ways of God to man’’

Question 7

DOM - Kingsley (1890)

Answer 7

‘He has to arouse terror and pity, not thought’

Question 8

DOM - Archer (1893)

Answer 8

Complained that with Bosola ‘a fatal lack of clearness ruins everything’

Question 9

DOM - Lee (1899)

Answer 9

‘repulsive themes and characters’

Question 10

PL - Johnson (1773)

Answer 10

‘Milton presents women to be subordinate and inferior beings’

Question 11

PL - Blake (1790)

Answer 11

Milton was ‘Of the devils party without knowing it’

Question 12

DOM - Rylands (1945)

Answer 12

‘Webster could handle a scene but he could not compass a plot’

Question 13

DOM - Ribner (1961)

Answer 13

‘The Duchess, not her brothers, stands for ordinary humanity, love and continuity of life through children’

Question 14

DOM - Rabkin (1968)

Answer 14

The Duchess’ marriage to Antonio is ‘wilful and irresponsible’

Question 15

DOM - Augherton (2013)

Answer 15

‘her brothers assume patriarchal control over her body and sexuality’

Question 16

PL - Williams (1940)

Answer 16

‘Milton depicts Satan as ‘malicious and idiotic’

Question 17

PL - Evans (1973)

Answer 17

‘Gods punishment of satan is a display of sorcery rather than an act of divine justice’

Question 18

PL - Lewalski (2007)

Answer 18

‘[Milton’s private life] was replete with challenges, joys and sorrows’