Duchess of Malfi Act 1 Flashcards
(19 cards)
Kingship, Corruption, Ideal
T A F O, T J K … O F S
1) Talk about AO3. How does this relate to the English Court?
2) What does the sycophants reflect in Amalfi’s society?
To a fixed order, their judicious king … Of flattering sycophants
Corruption, Crux, Destruction of Nature
S C E P N T H, D A D T T W L S
1) Talk about AO3. How does this relate to the English Court?
2) How will this foreshadow the future in the play?
Some cursed example poison’t near the head, death and disease through the whole land spread.
Corruption, Family, Greed
H A H B A L P T T G C O S P … N B C, P A C F O T
He and his brother are like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools … None but crows, pies and caterpillars feed on them.
M Y T A C S B M T, T F W I G F, T I, L W I L.
Methinks you that are courtiers should be my touchwood, take fire when I give fire, that is, laugh when I laugh.
T T L T H I L A F B C T A S, H M I H D, A A P T E T S F H
Then the law to him is like a foul black cobweb to a spider, He makes it his dwelling, and a prison to entangle those shall feed him.
S S T T P A L T T T C
She stains the time past, and lights the time to come.
A, T G M O H H, H B F F … H N I T H F S B
Antonio, the great master of her house, had been far fitter … His nature is too honest for such business.
I A Y C … Y A A W
I am your creature (Bosola) … You are a widow (Ferdinand)
N, N A T W T A, H, S Y H B
No, nor any thing without the addition, honor, sway your high blood.
D A O M V T S, T H P T M J H … W Y H M, I N M
Diamonds are of most valure they say, that have passed through many jeweller’s hands … Will you hear me? I’ll never marry.
Y L I A R P H … T I A K O H-D T D
You live in a rank pasture here … There is a kind of honey-dew that’s deadly.
Y A M S. T W M F P: D Y S … F, L W
You are my sister. This was my father’s Poniard, do you see?
Farewell, lusty widow.
S T M M? … I’d M T M L F-S … G B … D V … I W A C A H
Should this move me? … I’d make them my low footsteps … Great Battle … Dangerous Venture … I winked and chose a husband.
T T K S I H G U M T M L, M F.
To thy known secrecy I have given up more than my life, my fame.
W L U F T, I D M W L U Y F M … I A W S
What’s laid up for tomorrow, I did mean what’s laid up yonder for me … In a winding sheet?
Y H M M S B … T I A S A A D I D I T C
You have made me stark blind … There is a saucy and ambitious devi is dancing in this circle.
T G R O Y I T L B … R Y, O P M H T H Y.
This goodly roof of yours is too lowly built … Raise yourself, or please my hand to help you.
T I F A B S, T N T F C I A K A M H T. A, A, M.
This is flesh and blood sir, tis not the figure cut in alabaster kneels at my husband’s tomb. Awake, awake, man.
W N A M A W, A T T C T M B E T.
We now are man and wife, and tis the Church that must but echo this.
