Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
12 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
popularity of genre |
"The genre's popularity speaks to the attraction of seeing frustrated victims satisfy their demand for justice" - TANYA POLLARD "The rise of litigation and duelling in the period suggest a renewed urgency for finding ways to redress grievances, through both official and unofficial channels" |
|
|
theatrical aesthetics |
ritualistic/ spectacular quality of this theatre - Extravagant stereotypes of vice and occasional virtue - memento mori visuals - absurd world of the revenge tragedy |
|
|
comic strain |
"writers of revenge plays are conscious and highly manipulative of the comic strain which inheres in their material" CLARE JANET |
|
|
Conjurer's tricks // White Devil |
"Sophistic tricks" "Seeming to conjure, when indeed they cheat" - artifice "this nightcap", "I'll show you, by my strong commanding art, The circumstance that breaks your duchess' heart" - rhyming couplet, stressing for the audience |
|
|
White Devil -- dumb show |
DUMB SHOW - (pictoral and spectular) "Brachiano's picture"/ "spectacles of glass"/ "burn perfumes" "kisses it thrice; she faints" - very stylised/ theatre calling attention to itself as theatre |
|
|
White devil -- death scene |
"Excellent! then she'd dead" " --- She's poisoned" [running line, and rhyme] "feed her eyes and lips/ On the dead shadow" |
|
|
White devil- meta |
"Strike louder, music, from this charmed ground, To yield, as fits the act, a tragic sound" - metatheatre - act = action of play, act of the play |
|
|
revenger's tragedy |
"a country lady" "she has somewhat a grave look with her" "[kisses the skull]" - gloriana died protecting her chastity, now she's pimped out poisoned = a device to lead the sinner to repent through the vehicle of his own sin |
|
|
poetic justice of duke's death |
poetic justice - iconoclastic image of the skull > enables life and be 'animate' in the scene > propped up on mannequin > props insert the past into the present visually |
|
|
The changeling - glove |
BJ drops her glove: "touch my hand no more" DF allured: "I should thrust my fingers into her sockets" - perverse fantasy, defiling the glove |
|
|
ring prop |
"Oh, 'tis a diamond/ He wears upon his finger" - sexual metaphor - filled up or entered into (stands for vagina) - metonymically representative of bj herself |
|
|
finger |
"What, so fast on? Not part in death? Ill take a speedy course then: Finger and all shall off. [cuts off his finger]" - finger > appendage > unsexing of Alonzo - vehicle of erotic desire that he will later present to BJ |
