Duchess of Malfi Quotes
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- Created on: 10-05-17 08:42
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- Duchess of Malfi
- Love
- [She kisses him]
- I look young for your sake
- We are forced to woo as none dare woo us
- My rule is only at night
- Death
- Rather welcome the end of misery than to shun it
- Save them from the tiger
- Mercy
- Let the sun shine on him till he's dead
- I know death hath ten thousand several doors, for men to take their exits
- Corruption
- To purge infected blood such as her
- Lusty widow
- And on a sudden all the diamonds turned to pearls
- A scandalous report is touching mine honor
- I am Duchess of Malfi still
- Lie and Deceit
- I will not marry
- Our value can never truly be known
- Madness
- I am grown mad with't
- I will throttle it
- They imagine themselves to be transformed into wolves
- Ambition madam, is a great mans madness
- Critics
- A Jankowski - 'The Duchess is a sovereign ruler, a fact her brothers never forget'
- A Jankwoski - 'accepts responsibility for both her life and death'
- Irving Ribner - '[Bosola is] the most important unifying element in 'The Duchess of Malfi''
- Muriel Bradbrook - 'The Cardinal knows already that he is in hell'
- Lee Bliss - 'The Cardinals cool unemotional detachment is more terrifying than Ferdinand's impassioned raving'
- Travis Bogard - 'The ultimate tragedy of Webster's world is not the death of any individual but the presence of evil and decay which drags all mankind to death'
- Love
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