TDoM KEY QUOTES Flashcards by Poppy Queenan

first line

“you are welcome in your country, dear antonio”

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“flattering

sycophants” in france 1.1

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“a prince’s court

is like a common fountain” 1.1

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bosola - “the court

gall”

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Bosola - “i fell into the

galleys in your service” (C)

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“he and his brother are

like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools”

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antonio about bosola - “this foul

melancholy will poison all his goodness”

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ferdinand gives antonio 1.1

“give him the jewel”

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castruccio - “it is fitting

a soldier arise to be a prince.. but not a prince descend to be a captain”

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ferdinand - “you are a good

horseman antonio”

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“he is a melancholy

churchman”

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“a most perverse

and turbulent nature”

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“the right

noble duchess”

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“provisorship

of your horse” (Bosola’s role)

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“his nature is too

honest for such business” (C about B)

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“she’s a young widow

I would not have her marry again”

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“i am

your creature”

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“places and riches

oft are bribes of shame” (B)

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Diamonds are of most value

They say, that have pass’d through most jewellers’ hands.

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“i’ll

never marry” (duchess at start)

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“the marriage night is

the entrance into some prison”

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“this was my

father’s poniard” (F)

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Let old wives report

I wink’d and chose a husband

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I am making my will

as ‘tis fit princes should

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Twas my wedding-ring,

And I did vow never to part with it But to my second husband.

Ambition, madam,

is a great man's madness, (A)

O my

unworthiness (A 1.1)

The misery

of us that are born great!

Per verba [de] presenti

is absolute marriage.

Whether the spirit

of greatness or of woman Reign most in her, I know not

eminent courtier?

Tis the very main of my ambition.

old woman - “she

resembled an abortive hedge-hog.”

I have bought

some apricocks

How greedily

she eats them!

I know not

what to think on 't. (A)

Jewels, to the value

of four thousand ducats, Are missing in the duchess' cabinet.

She 's expos'd

Unto the worst of torture, pain, and fear.

“I am Bosola

your friend” (to A)

Bosola to Antonio “you are a

false steward”

“you are an impudent

snake” (antonio to bosola)

antonio nosebleed

“two letters are drown’d in blood”

“a child’s

nativity calculated”

Thou art a witty

false one, I mean to him”

You told me of

a piteous wound i' th' heart,

Your husband, old Castruccio,

is come to Rome, Most pitifully tir'd with riding post.

“a sister

damned”

“grown a

notorious strumpet”

Talk to me somewhat quickly,

Or my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin.

“you are a lord

of mis-rule”

“when wilt thou marry cariola?” (A)

“never, my lord”

“whether I am doom’d

to live or die, I can do both like a prince”

“clip the bird’s wings

that’s already flown!”

“why might I not marry?”

F: “thou art undone”

“dost thou know what

reputation is?”

“why should I

be cas’d up like a holy relic?”

“the place that you must

fly to is Ancona”

“feign a

pilgimage to our lady of loretto”

“i do not like

this jesting with religion” duchess responds: “thou art a superstitious fool”

“noble

ceremony” (pilgrims)

“twas her wedding ring

which he vow’d shortly he would sacrifice to his revenge”

“I suspect

some ambush”

This darkness

suits you well

Where are

your cubs

a dead man's

hand

That 's the greatest torture

souls feel in hell, In hell, that they must live, and cannot die.

“let them, like tyrants

never be remembered for the ill they have done”

“damn her!

that body of hers”

“must I

see her again?” (B to F)

“I am chained

to endure all your tyranny”

madmen song

“O let us howl some heavy note”

“Am I

not thy duchess?”

“I am

Duchess of Malfi still”

“here is a present

from your princely brothers” (executioners)

“it

affrights not me” (death)

Cariola - “I will

not die”

Cariola’s excuse - “I am

quick with child”

“she stirs;

here’s life”

antio and delio

“you are still my lov’d and best friend” (A)

lyncanthropia - “oerflows such

melancholy humour they imagine themselves wolves”

ferdinand - “eagles commonly

fly alone” (he is happy being alone)

B - “what a fatal

judgement hath fallen upon Ferdinand”

C: “antonio lurks

here”

Julia admits that “adultery

is a sin”

julia’s death - “tis

weakness” (J)

antonio after D’s death - “my duchess is

asleep now, and her little ones, I hope sweetly”

“the sick

prince” (act 4 F)

C - “I am puzzled

in a question about hell” - ironic because he is the cardinal

C: “How tedious

is a guilty conscience”

ferdinand’s last line

“falling by ambition, blood or lust”

B: “revenge for the duchess of malfi

murdered”

last line of the play

importance of integrity

“your bounty..

make me a villain” (B)

antonio - “ambition

is a great man’s madness”

B - “the devil takes delight

to hang at a woman’s girdle”

cardinal “fantastic glass

invented by galileo” to look at the moon to perhaps “find a constant woman”

irony - “when i

choose a husband, I will marry for honour” (she has already chosen and this was for love)

“pearls”

loss of status from diamonds symbol of death and tears

“he hath left

a dead man’s hand here”

“that’s the greatest

torture souls feel in hell: that they must live”

Ferdinand act 4 resolves to

“bring her to despair” etymologically means without God

TDoM KEY QUOTES Flashcards

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