Duchess of Malfi

Question 1

‘A prince’s court is like a common _______, whence should flow pure ______ drops in general, but if’t chance some ______ example ______‘_ near the head, ____ and ________ through the whole land spread.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 1

‘A prince’s court is like a common fountain, whence should flow pure silver drops in general, but if’t chance some cursed example poison’t near the head, death and disease through the whole land spread.’ - Antonio, A1S1.

Question 2

‘You have shook hands with _______ and made him invisible.’ - Who says this when and were?

Answer 2

‘You have shook hands with reputation and made him invisible.’ - Ferdinand, to the Duchess, A3S2.

Question 3

‘A most ______ and turbulent nature. What appears in him ____ is merely outside. If he laugh heartily, it is to laugh all ______ out of fashion.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 3

‘A most perverse and turbulent nature. What appears in him mirth is merely outside. If he laugh heartily, it is to laugh all honesty out of fashion.’ - Antonio, about Ferdinand, A1S2.

Question 4

‘He should have been ____, but instead of coming to it by the primitive decency of the _____, he did bestow _____ so largely and so impudently as if he would have carried it away without ______ knowledge.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 4

‘He should have been Pope, but instead of coming to it by the primitive decency of the church, he did bestow bribes so largely and so impudently as if he would have carried it away without heavens knowledge.’ - Antonio, about the Cardinal, A1S2.

Question 5

‘Their _____ are more spotted than Laban’s ____.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 5

‘Their livers are more spotted than Laban’s sheep.’ - Ferdinand, about women remarrying, A1S2.

Question 6

‘______ are of most value, they say, that have past through most _______ hands.’/’Whores, by that rule, are _______.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 6

‘Diamonds are of most value, they say, that have past through most jewellers hands.’/’Whores, by that rule, are precious.’ - Duchess and Ferdinand, A1S2.

Question 7

‘Whose _____ must I cut?’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 7

‘Whose throat must I cut?’ - Bosola, A1S2.

Question 8

‘This _____ fruit and my ________ are not friends. How they _____ me!’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 8

‘This green fruit and my stomach are not friends. How they swell me!’ - Duchess, A2S1.

Question 9

‘Why do you ____? Are tears your justification? The self-same tears will fall into your _______ bosom, lady, with a loud protestation that you love him above the world.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 9

‘Why do you weep? Are tears your justification? The self-same tears will fall into your husband’s bosom, lady, with a loud protestation that you love him above the world.’ - Cardinal, to Julia, A2S4.

Question 10

‘I have this night digged up a ________.’ - Who says this and when?

Answer 10

‘I have this night digged up a mandrake.’ - Ferdinand, A2S5.

Question 11

‘I might toss her _____ ‘bout her ears, root up her goodly _______, blast her meads and lay her _______ territory as waste as she hath done her honours.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 11

‘I might toss her palace ‘bout her ears, root up her goodly forests, blast her meads and lay her general territory as waste as she hath done her honours.’ - Ferdinand, A2S5.

Question 12

‘The royal blood of _____ and Castile-be thus ________?’
‘Apply desperate physic! We must not now use balsamum, but fire, for that’s the mean to _____ infected blood - ____ such as hers.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 12

‘The royal blood of Aragon and Castile-be thus attainted?’
‘Apply desperate physic! We must not now use balsamum, but fire, for that’s the mean to purge infected blood - blood such as hers.’ - Cardinal + Ferdinand, A2S5.

Question 13

‘Tis not your whore’s ___ that shall quench my wild fire, but your whore’s _____.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 13

‘Tis not your whore’s milk that shall quench my wild fire, but your whore’s blood.’ - Ferdinand, A2S5.

Question 14

‘The ________ lies in her rank blood.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 14

‘The witchcraft lies in her rank blood.’ - Ferdinand, A3S1.

Question 15

‘For know, whether I am doomed to live or ___, I can do both like a _____.’ - Who says this, when and where?

Answer 15

‘For know, whether I am doomed to live or die, I can do both like a prince.’ - The Duchess, A3S2.

Question 16

‘Why should only I, of all the other ______ of the world, be cased up like a holy _____?’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 16

‘Why should only I, of all the other princes of the world, be cased up like a holy relic?’ - Duchess, A3S2.

Question 17

‘The Lord Ferdinand _____.’/’Like a deadly _____ that lightens ere it smokes.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 17

‘The Lord Ferdinand laughs.’/’Like a deadly cannon that lightens ere it smokes.’ - Pescara and Delio, A3S3.

Question 18

‘Here the ceremony of the Cardinal’s _________ in the habit of a ______, performed in delivering up his cross, hat, robes and ____ at the shrine, and investing him with _____, helmet, shield and ____.’ - Stage directions when?

Answer 18

‘Here the ceremony of the Cardinal’s instalment in the habit of a soldier, performed in delivering up his cross, hat, robes and ring at the shrine, and investing him with sword, helmet, shield and spurs.’ - For the Cardinal, A3S4.

Question 19

‘You were too much i’ th’ _____, but no more.’ - Who says this, when and where?

Answer 19

‘You were too much i’ th’ light, but no more.’ - Ferdinand, to the Duchess, A4S1.

Question 20

‘Let them loose when you please, for I am _____ to endure all your _______.’ - Who says this, when and where?

Answer 20

‘Let them loose when you please, for I am chained to endure all your tyranny.’ - The Duchess, A4 S2.

Question 21

‘I am Duchess of Malfi ___.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 21

‘I am Duchess of Malfi still.’ - The Duchess, A4 S2.

Question 22

‘I have so much ________ in my blood.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 22

‘I have so much obedience in my blood.’ - Duchess, A4S2.

Question 23

‘Pull, and pull _______, for your able strength must pull down ______ upon me - yet stay! Heaven’s gates are not so highly ______ as princes palaces. They that enter must go upon their ____.’ - Who says this, when and where?

Answer 23

‘Pull, and pull strongly, for your able strength must pull down heaven upon me - yet stay! Heaven’s gates are not so highly arched as princes palaces. They that enter must go upon their knees.’ - The Duchess, A4 S2.

Question 24

‘Cover her face. Mine eyes _____! She died young.’ - Who says this when and where?

Answer 24

‘Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle! She died young.’ - Ferdinand, A4S2.

Question 25

'I have _____ sore eyes.' - Who says this, when and where?

Answer 25

'I have cruel sore eyes.' - Ferdinand, A5S2.

Question 26

'The last part of my life hath done me ____ service!' - Who says this, when and where?

Answer 26

'The last part of my life hath done me best service!' - Bosola, A5S5.

Question 27

'My sister! Oh, my sister! There's the ____ on't. Whether we fall by _______, blood or lust, like _____ we are cut with our own dust.' - Who says this when and where?

Answer 27

'My sister! Oh, my sister! There's the cause on't. Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.' - Ferdinand, A5S5.