duchess

Question 1

jankowski

Answer 1

The Duchess abandons her duties of ‘body politic’ for those of her ‘body natural’ and for this she has to die

Question 2

bliss

Answer 2

seeks private happiness at the expense of public stability. As a ruler she can no more be lauded for the example she sets than her brothers”

Question 3

ribner

Answer 3

“The Duchess, not her brothers, stand for ordinary humanity, love and the continuity of life through children

Question 4

murray

Answer 4

The radiant spirit of the Duchess cannot be killed

Question 5

oakes

Answer 5

At the end she is, she says, the Duchess of Malfi still, and with that title she negates her relationship with Antonio: she becomes the woman carved in stone that Ferdinand wanted her to be.

Question 6

alexander

Answer 6

‘in many ways, the duchess is an ordinary women, that is precisely her problem.’

Question 7

green

Answer 7

‘ideal listening wife.’

Question 8

callaghan

Answer 8

‘repeating the historic transgression of eve.’

Question 9

wigham

Answer 9

‘the first fully tragic woman in renaissance drama.’

Question 10

canton

Answer 10

‘a figure at best of fun, at worst, ridicule.’