"The Revenger's Tragedy" Quotes

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About Castiza
“I’m above my tongue! Most constant sister” Vindice
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Gratiana trying to resist corruption
“the riches of the world cannot hire a mother to such a most unnatural task!” Gratiana
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Women's weaknesses
“men know that know us; we are so weak, their words can overthrow us” Gratiana
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Corruption
“tis no shame to be bad because tis common” Vindice
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Chastity
“if she be still chaste I’ll never call her mine” Gratiana
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Virginity
“if thou knew’st what ‘twere to lose it, thou would never keep it” Gratiana
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Virginity
“virginity is paradise locked up” Gratiana
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Chastity
“I mistook you; pray, did you see my mother? Which way went she?” Castiza
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Virginity
“if all feared drowning that spy waves ashore, gold would grow rich and all the merchants poor” Gratiana pg 62
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Honesty and chastity
“why are there so few honest women, but because ‘tis the poorer profession?” Vindice
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Corruption
“were it not for gold and women there would be no damnation” Vindice
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The world
“the world’s divided into knaves and fools” Lussurioso
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Shame
“shame has no shame” Vindice
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Mothers
“unnatural mother” Vindice
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Lust
“thy veins are swelled with lust” Vindice
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Honour
“I’ll guard her honour” Vindice
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cuckolds
“The pen of his ******* writes him cuckold” Hippolito
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Self-reflection
“If every trick were told that’s dealt by night, there are few here that would not blush outright” Vindice
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Sins
“I have great sins, I must have days (…) to lift them out and not to die unclear” Duke
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JB's crime
“Is it not strange that a man should lie in a whole month for a woman?” Junior Brother
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Betrayal
“I must through brothers’ perjury die” Junior Brother
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****
“my fault was sweet sport, which the world approves, I die for that which every woman loves ” Junior Brother
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Violence
“the violence of my joy forgot it” Vindice
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Deception
“surely we are all mad people and they whom we think are not; we mistake those” Vindice
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Deception
“ladies with false forms, you deceive men but cannot deceive worms” Vindice
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Revenge
“I do applaud your constant vengeance” Hippolito
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Revenge
“nine years’ vengeance crowd into a minute!” Vindice
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vindice is as guilty as the Duke
“Duke: what are you two? Vindice: Villains all three!”
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Betrayal
“I’m betrayed” Duke
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Irony
“Forget him or I’ll poison him” Duchess
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Mortality
“nothing’s sure in mortality but mortality” Ambitioso
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Incest
“my step mother and the *******, O, incestuous sweets between them’ Lussurioso
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Debauchery
“the nobler she is, the baser is she grown” Supevacuo
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Women
“easy wax” Vindice
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Women
“to weep is to our sex naturally given, but to weep truly, that’s a gift from heaven” Gratiana
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Corruption
“I am recovered of that foul disease” Gratiana
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Honesty and Dishonesty
“who would not lie, when men are hanged for truth?” Vindice
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Revenge
“we cannot justly be revenged too much” Noble
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God's judgement/symbol
“when thunder claps, heaven likes the tragedy” Vindice
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Corruption
“Tis time to die, when we are ourselves our foes” Vindice
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Card 2

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Gratiana trying to resist corruption

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“the riches of the world cannot hire a mother to such a most unnatural task!” Gratiana

Card 3

Front

Women's weaknesses

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Card 4

Front

Corruption

Back

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Card 5

Front

Chastity

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