Duchess of Malfi

Question 1

A1S1 Antonio on the Court

Answer 1

Their judicious king…quits first his royal palace of flatt’ring sycophants

Question 2

A1S1 Antonio on the Brothers

Answer 2

A Prince’s court is like a common fountain…if’t chance some cursed example poison’t near the head, death and diseases through the whole land spread

Question 3

A1S1 Bosola on the Cardinal

Answer 3

this great fellow were able to possess the greatest devil and make him worse

Question 4

A1S1 Bosola on the Brothers, simile

Answer 4

He and his brothers are like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools: they are rich and o’erleaden with fruit, but none but crows, pies and caterpillars feed on them

Question 5

A1S1 Bosola on the Courts and Hierarchy

Answer 5

Places in the court are but like beds in the hospital, where this man’s head lies at the man’s foot, and so lower and lower

Question 6

A1S1 Antonio on Bosola

Answer 6

This foul melancholy will poison all his goodness

Question 7

A1S1

Answer 7

“it is fitting a soldier arise to be a Prince, but not necessarily a Prince descend to be a captain.”

Question 8

A1S1 Antonio on the Cardinal

Answer 8

He should have been Pope, but instead…he did bestow bribes so largely

Question 9

A1S1 Antonio on the Duchess and Light

Answer 9

she stains the time past, lights the time to come.

Question 10

A1S1 Antonio on the Siblings all together, metaphor

Answer 10

You never fixed your eye on three fair medals cast in one figure, of so different temper

Question 11

A1 Ferdinand on the Duchess’ marriage

Answer 11

I would not have her marry again

Question 12

A1 Bosola to Ferdinand on himself

Answer 12

I am your creature

Question 13

A1 Ferdinand convincing the Duchess not to marry

Answer 13

Marry? They are most luxurious will wed twice

Question 14

A1 The Duchess famous diamonds

Answer 14

Diamonds are of most value, they say, that have passed through most jewellers’ hands

Question 15

A1 Ferdinand response to the Duchess’ comment on diamonds

Answer 15

whores by that rule are precious

Question 16

A1 Ferdinand using a symbol of violence

Answer 16

This was my father’s poniard: do you see?

Question 17

A1 Ferdinand on the Duchess’ archetype

Answer 17

Farewell, lusty widow

Question 18

A1 The Duchess on how reckless she is with her remarriage

Answer 18

Let old wives report I winked and chose a husband

Question 19

A1S3 Cariola comment on what governs the Duchess

Answer 19

whether it be the spirit of greatness or of woman reign most in her… it shows a fearful madness.

Question 20

A1 The Duchess action of power towards Antonio

Answer 20

[she puts her ring upon his finger]

Question 21

A1 Antonio response to Duchess’ proposal

Answer 21

Oh my unworthiness

Question 22

A1 The Duchess on hierarchy, wooing

Answer 22

The misery of us that are born great, we are forced to woo because none dare woo us

Question 23

A2 Bosola speculating on the Duchess’ pregnancy

Answer 23

Wears a loose bodied gown…I have bought some apricots

Question 24

A2 The Duchess on her pregnancy to Antonio

Answer 24

Your arm, Antonio, do I not grow fat?

Question 25

Old Lady to Bosola, his violence

Answer 25

You are still abusing women

Question 26

Bosola on the Old Lady

Answer 26

Mention your frailties

Question 27

Delio Superstitions

Answer 27

How superstitiously we mind our evils... a bleeding nose

Question 28

Antonio on his own deceit and treachery

Answer 28

Traitors are ever confident until they are discovered

Question 29

Antonio superstition and damning moment / stage direction

Answer 29

My nose bleeds [takes out handkerchief and drops paper] one that were superstitious would count this ominous, when it merely comes by chance

Question 30

Bosola reading something

Answer 30

[reads] ...the tail of the dragon, in the eighth house, doth threaten a violent death

Question 31

Ferdinand on public opinions, outrage towards the Duchess

Answer 31

A sister damned, she's loose i'th'hilts, grown a notorious strumpet!

Question 32

The Cardinal disgusted by the marriage

Answer 32

Should our blood...be thus attainted?

Question 33

The Cardinal on women's nature and body composition

Answer 33

Unequal nature, to place women's hearts so far upon the left side

Question 34

Ferdinand INCEST

Answer 34

Talk to me somewhat quickly, or my imagination will carry me to see her in the shameful act of sin

Question 35

Ferdinand his own imagination about the Duchess' husband

Answer 35

Some lovely squire that carries coals up to her privy lodgings

Question 36

Ferdinand Violent ideas for punishment

Answer 36

I would have their bodies burnt in a coal pit with the ventage stopped that their cursed smoke might not ascend to heaven

Question 37

Antonio on the common rabble

Answer 37

The common rabble do directly say she is a strumpet

Question 38

Antonio on the suspicion of him as the husband

Answer 38

Of love, or marriage, between her and me - they never dream of

Question 39

Antonio classical allusion

Answer 39

Venus had two soft doves to draw her chariot: I must have another

Question 40

The Duchess on age and beauty

Answer 40

Doth not the colour of my hair 'gin to change?

Question 41

Ferdinand on reputation

Answer 41

You have shook hands with reputation and made him invisible

Question 42

Ferdinand on reputation pt2, Question version

Answer 42

dost thou know what reputation is?

Question 43

Bosola on jewels

Answer 43

A most unvalued jewel

Question 44

Bosola on ambition and its effects

Answer 44

Can this ambitious age have so much goodness in't as to prefer a man merely for worth, without these shadows of wealth and painted honours?

Question 45

Cariola on the pilgrimage

Answer 45

I do not like this jesting with religion, this feigned pilgrimage

Question 46

Ferdinand on light to the Duchess

Answer 46

You were too much i'th'light.

Question 47

The Duchess on the pretense of her punishment

Answer 47

why dost thou wrap thy poisoned pills in gold and sugar?

Question 48

Ferdinand gross prop

Answer 48

[gives her a dead man's hand]

Question 49

The Duchess on her willing death

Answer 49

There is not between heaven and Earth one wish I stay for after this

Question 50

Ferdinand his intentions for the Duchess

Answer 50

To bring her to despair

Question 51

The Duchess icon

Answer 51

I am Duchess of Malfi still

Question 52

The Duchess as she dies

Answer 52

They that enter there must go upon their knees [kneels]

Question 53

Cariola trying to escape death

Answer 53

* I will not die, I must not, I am contracted to a young gentleman! * Here's your wedding ring

Question 54

Ferdinand guilt

Answer 54

Cover her face, mine eyes dazzle

Question 55

Ferdinand guilt but directed at Bosola

Answer 55

By what authority did'st thou execute this bloody sentence?

Question 56

Bosola justice and himself

Answer 56

The office of justice is perverted quite when one thief hangs another

Question 57

Bosola to the brothers

Answer 57

You have a pair of hearts that are hollow graves, rotten and rotting others

Question 58

Bosola on his own regrets

Answer 58

I am angry with myself now that I wake

Question 59

Bosola when the duchess wakes up again

Answer 59

The dead bodies you saw were feigned statues

Question 60

Julia to the cardinal on her own sins

Answer 60

You have concealed for me as great a sin as adultery

Question 61

The Cardinal perverting christianity

Answer 61

Thou art poisoned with that book

Question 62

Julia as she dies

Answer 62

I go I know not whither

Question 63

Bosola on the fickle nature of human lives

Answer 63

We are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and banded which way please them

Question 64

Doctor on Ferdinand's lyncanthropy

Answer 64

A wolf's skin was hairy on the outside his on the inside

Question 65

The Cardinal regrets

Answer 65

The devil takes away my heart for having any confidence in prayer

Question 66

Bosola on the ending

Answer 66

Thou which stood'st like a huge pyramid... shalt end in a little point