The White Devil - Critical Quotes

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Charles Lamb - Vittoria during trial scene
'innocence resembling boldness'
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Dr. June Waudby
'Vittoria is an important commodity within this economy of exchange' 'In a society where women are currency, [Flamineo's] sister is an obvious asset'
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Jose de Sevilla
'Vice and virtue share a common location since evil is everywhere'
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Brown
'a dazzling clash of good and evil; in biblical language, Satan transformed into an Angel of Light; in theatrical terms, a sensational innovation' (re Vittoria)
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Carey
'Webster's elusive white devil is actually the office of the papacy, fraught with corruption and abuse under the guise of absolute power'
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Travis Bogard
'life, as it appears to Webster, is moral chaos. Ultimately no clarifying philosophy is possible'
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Jardine
'the 'strong' woman must be systematically taught the error of her ways', and therefore destroyed'
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Sarah Stokes
Webster's 'characters are self-conscious of their dramatic and fictional identities'
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Nigel Wheale
'Vittoria's trial becomes a battle of discourses'
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Dr June Waudby
'By the end of the first act... Vittoria's character has been constructed by the assumptions and interpretations of the characters who surround her'
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'Vittoria is an important commodity within this economy of exchange' 'In a society where women are currency, [Flamineo's] sister is an obvious asset'

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Dr. June Waudby

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'Vice and virtue share a common location since evil is everywhere'

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'a dazzling clash of good and evil; in biblical language, Satan transformed into an Angel of Light; in theatrical terms, a sensational innovation' (re Vittoria)

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'Webster's elusive white devil is actually the office of the papacy, fraught with corruption and abuse under the guise of absolute power'

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Where is the quote from Carey from? I can't find the reference info anywhere :(

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