Key Quotations - Antonio Flashcards
Antonio court renaissance motif
‘A prince’s court is like a common fountain whence should flow’
Corrupt Court spreads to the land
‘Death and disease through the whole land spread’
Antonio on Bosola
‘This foul melancholy will poison all his goodness’
Antonio on the Cardinal
‘He is a melancholy churchman’
Antonio on Ferdinand lacking consistency
‘A most perverse and turbulent nature’
Antonio on Ferdinand’s court
‘He speaks with others tongues and hears men’s suits’
‘Dooms men to death by information, rewards by heresay’
Contrast between the Duchess and her brothers
‘For the devil speaks in them. But for their sister, the right noble Duchess, you never fixed your eye on three fair medals’
Antonio on the Duchess
‘As cuts off all lascivious and vain hope, her days are practiced in such noble virtue’
Antonio wanting every woman to be like the Duchess
‘Dress themselves in her’
Emphasis on Antonio’s adoration for the Duchess
‘She stains the time past, lights the time to come’
Courtly rhetoric towards the Duchess
‘Beauteous excellence’
Ambition, Antonios place in court
‘Ambition, madam, is a great man’s madness’
Switching of gender roles when marrying the Duchess
‘These words should be mine, And all the parts you have spoke’
What the common people are saying about the Duchess
‘She is a strumpet’
Accusing Cariola, points pistol at her
‘I should turn this to thee for that’
