Measure for Measure Flashcards

Critics - The Duke (10 cards)

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Harold Bloom

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‘Shakespeare does not bother to provide the Duke with any motivation’

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Richard Wilson

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sees the Duke is a ‘Machiavellian power-monger who moves unseen and all-seeing among his people in order to better dominate them’

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Roger Allam

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says the Duke ‘constantly uses other people as a means of self knowledge, through them he gains an understanding of himself’

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Cedric Watts

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‘The Duke may be benevolent, but he often lacks considerable sensitivity’

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Marian Cox

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‘Like Iago, the Duke is a playwright who devises and allocates roles; but unlike Iago, the Duke finds his human material intractable, and unwilling to follow the script’

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Kenneth Muir

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The Duke appears to have a ‘supreme indifference to human feelings, like a scientist performing a controlled experiment on human nature’

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Wilson-knight

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‘The Duke’s sense of human responsibility is delightful; he is like a kindly father, and all the rest are his children’

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Julliet Stevenson

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‘The last act is a trial that exposes everyone but also gives them a chance to redeem themselves.** The last character to be put on trial is the Duke’**

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Cedric Watts (2)

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‘The Duke’s proposal of marriage to Isabella suggests that Shakespeare intends us to relate the political to the familial

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Roger Allam (2)

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‘I felt as if I was subjecting Isabella, Angelo and Mariana to some sort of ideal by fire. The consequence as a whole had the ritual of purification’

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