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Flashcards by Biha Saeed, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Biha Saeed
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| The Cardinal knows already that he is in Hell | Muriel Bradbrook |
| The radiant spirit of the Duchess cannot be killed | CRITIC |
| …as a woman, she combines virtue with powerful sexual desire. | -Dympna Callaghan |
| [Bosola] is the most unifying element in 'The Duchess of Malfi' | - Irving Ribner |
| It is clear that the Cardinal's description of the affair [with Julia] expresses only satisfaction of his sexual prowess. | -Kathleen McLuskie |
| Webster's characters die superbly, asserting their selfhood to the last breath. | -Kenneth Tyan |
| Webster was much possessed by death, and saw the skull beneath the skin. | -T. S. Eliot |
| It is... in or near the moment of death that Webster is most triumphant. He adopts the romantic convention that men are, in the second of death, most essentially and significantly themselves. | -Rupert Brooke |
| The final act is designed to show that the way Aragonian brothers is that of madness and damnation… | -Irving Ribner |
| [Webster's villains] meet their deaths in ways which satisfy poetic justice. | -R.S White |
| Webster envisages evil in its most extreme form: and he presents it... as far more powerful than good. | - David Cecil |
| Bosola, the chief instrument in the Duchess' betrayal and subjection, also bears the strongest witness to her virtues. | -Muriel Bradbrook |
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