"The Duchess, not her brothers stands for ordinary humanity, love and the continuity of life through children"
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P.B Murray
"The radiant spirit of the Duchess cannot be killed"
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Elizabeth Oakes
"She becomes the woman carved in stone that Ferdinand wanted her to be"
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R.S White
"The tragedy of a virtuous woman achieves heroism through her death"
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Irving Ribner
"The final act is designed to show that the way the Aragonian brothers is that of madness and damnation, the complete descent of man into beast symbolised by the lycanthropia of Ferdinand"
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Muriel Bradbrook
"The sight of the [the Duchess'] face awakens Ferdinand to what he has done"
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Frank Whigham
"When Ferdinand looks down into his sister's dazzling eyes, he sees himself, faces his own death too"
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Theodore A. Jankowski
"The brothers appear to forbid her remarriage because she is their sister, not because of her political position as the Duchess"
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Christopher Hart
"The brothers are not driven by any sense of possessive outrage, however warped, but by delight in malice itself, a 'motiveless malignity' even against their own flesh and blood"
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Leonora Leet Brodwin
"Her [The Duchess] tragic error lies not in choosing to love but in overestimating the ability of a hostile world to accept her vision of moral health"
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Christopher Hart
"Bosola is a twisted misanthrope and cut throat"
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Muriel Bradbook
"Bosola, the chief instrument in the Duchess' betrayal and subjection, also bears the strongest witness to her virtues"
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Travis Bogard
"The ultimate tragedy of Webster's world is not death of any individual but the presence of evil and decay which drags all mankind to death"
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Coddon
"In the tragedy, melancholy is chiefly emblematic and instrumental bound to visible strategies of corrupt political practices"
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Lisa Jardine
"The Duchess' strength lies in her fortitude in the face of doom she has brought upon herself"
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Muriel Bradbrook
"With all his many roles, Bosola is never permitted the luxury of being a self"
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Card 2
Front
"The radiant spirit of the Duchess cannot be killed"
Back
P.B Murray
Card 3
Front
"She becomes the woman carved in stone that Ferdinand wanted her to be"
Back
Card 4
Front
"The tragedy of a virtuous woman achieves heroism through her death"
Back
Card 5
Front
"The final act is designed to show that the way the Aragonian brothers is that of madness and damnation, the complete descent of man into beast symbolised by the lycanthropia of Ferdinand"
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