Streetcar, Duchess and Antony and Cleopatra Critics Quotes

Hi, this is very specific to my school's choices of texts, but here are some critical quotations for A Streetcar Named Desire, The Duchess of Malfi and Antony and Cleopatra

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‘Acknowledges Blanche as both ‘a fallen angel victimized by her surroundings’ and… ‘a deranged harlot’’
Seigle
1 of 17
‘Because of William’s sympathy, Blanche becomes a tragic protagonist in A Streetcar Named Desire and transforms the play into a sort of allegory: Williams uses her plight to criticize the social circumstances that have both shaped her flawed person
Seigle
2 of 17
Blanche’s downfall is ‘a demonstration of William’s sympathy for her circumstances and a condemnation of the society that destroys her’
Anca Vlasopolos
3 of 17
‘Williams presents the plight of sensitive, helpless women who are victims in Southern patriarchal society, either degraded or destroyed in their search for identity and security’
Foley
4 of 17
‘Streetcar is a cry of pain; to forget that is to forget the play’
Arthur Miller
5 of 17
‘[Stanley is] a sexual terrorist, a tiger on the loose’
Arthur Miller
6 of 17
‘It’s a horror story about the abuse of power, as relevant today as it was in Webster’s own time’
Jeanette Weatherall
7 of 17
‘The society of the play, like Webster’s own, is male-dominated, corrupt and clearly not the meritocracy that the Duchess seems to advocate’
Jeanette Weatherall
8 of 17
‘Webster was much possessed by death and saw the skull beneath the skin’
T. S. Eliot
9 of 17
‘Bosola plays all the characters of a revenge tragedy (alienated intellectual, malcontent, intelligencer, tool-villain, murderer, revenger’
Lucy Webster
10 of 17
‘He creates numerous roles for the Duchess – as a caring mother, passionate lover, loyal wife, distant sister, tortured victim’
Sarah Stokes
11 of 17
‘Their relationship is fundamentally exhibitionist’
Dr Emma Smith
12 of 17
‘They are playing out grandiose fantasies that are the culmination of lives in the public eye’
Dr Emma Smith
13 of 17
‘[Cleopatra] embodies the play’s central conflict – the personal vs the political’
Gareth Calway
14 of 17
‘She is exotic, luxurious, voluptuous, pleasure-principled, “barbarian”/scary non-European, “hysterical”, mad, female: all the things that un-man, un-Roman and disarm Antony’
Gareth Calway
15 of 17
‘Their tragedy is that they have both been destroyed by a fantasy’
Gareth Calway
16 of 17
‘His Cleopatra is infuriatingly unpredictable, unreliable and provoking… yet she is also clearly a figure of paradox and contradiction’
Dr Sean McEvoy
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