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"I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment within me…For only in destroying I find ease,"
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Satan 119-129 (Paradise Lost)
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"The serpent sleeping, in whose mazy folds to hide me, and the dark intent I bring."
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Satan 161-162 (Paradise Lost)
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"For solitude sometimes is best society, and short retirement urges sweet return."
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Adam 249-250 (Paradise Lost)
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"His violence thou fearst not, being such, as we, not capable of death or pain, can either not recieve, or can repel."
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Eve 282-284 (Paradise Lost)
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"From his own evil, and for the time remained stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge: But the hot hell that always in him burns,"
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465-467 (Paradise Lost)
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"What may this mean? Language of man pronounced by tongue of brute, and human sense expressed?"
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Eve 553-554 (Paradise Lost)
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"Queen of the universe, do not believe those rigid threats of death; ye shall not die: How should ye? By the fruit? It gives you life to knowledge. By the Threatener? Look on me, me who have touched and tasted yet both live and life more perfect have attained than fate meant me, by venturing higher than my lot."
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Satan 684-690 (Paradise Lost)
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"She plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, that all was lost."
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781-784 (Paradise Lost)
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"Confirmed then I resolve, Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe."
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Eve 830-831(Paradise Lost)
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"From his slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve down dropped, and all the faded roses shed:"
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892-893 (Paradise Lost)
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"Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe."
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Adam 915-916 (Paradise Lost)
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"Our state cannot be severed, we are one, one flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself."
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Adam 958-959 (Paradise Lost)
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“Empress of this fair world, resplendent Eve”
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Line 568 (Paradise Lost)
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“Thee I have missed, and thought it long, deprived thy presence, agony of love till not felt,"
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Lines 857-859 (Paradise Lost)
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“If they at least are his created or to spite us more,”
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Satan, Lines 146-147 (Paradise Lost)
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“Sky loured, and muttering thunder, some sad drops wept at completing of the mortal Sin.”
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1002-1003 (Paradise Lost)
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"Satan takes on something of the character of the tormented voyeur"
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Kermode (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Alienation from God naturally to dislike of his gifts."
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Lovelock (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Satan carries hell with him... potentially any free being carries it in himself... hell is ade bu fallen angels and by fallen men after them."
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Lovelock (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"The mind is its own place, and in itself / can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
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Satan (CC) (Paradise Lost Book I)
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"He was a true poet and of the devil's party without knowing it."
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Blake (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"He makes words tell as pictures."
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Hazlitt (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"She if the wife but she is still as much as ever the mistress of Adam."
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Hazlitt (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Satan seems to speak for freedom but from an autocratic viewpoint."
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Armando Iannucci (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Life to him would be death to me."
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Keats (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Eve is subjected to male surveillance throughout - from God, Adam and Satan and tht she is therefore objectified and judged on appearances, which renders her status as inferior."
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(CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"More than an oppressed victim... She is active, 'bold and adventurous' whilst Adam is 'domestic' and 'mild'... she breaks all restrictions and bans and so asserts independence."
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(CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Patriarchal poetry"
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Gertrude Stein (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"Milton's Eve falls for exactly the same reason that Satan does: because she wants to be 'as Gods' and because, like him, she is secretly dissatisfied with her place, secretly preoccupied with questions of 'equality'."
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Gilbert and Guber (CC) (Paradise Lost)
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"he uses classical literature to elevate his style and render his epic more sophisticated. Similarly, Webster, a 'literary magpie', adapts a well known story about Vittoria Accoromboni and also adapts many lines drawn from other dramas and poems."
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(CC) (Paradise Lost)
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“most cunning courtesans in all of Venice”
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Volpone (LP)
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-“my she wolf (…) greedy and full of expectation”
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Volpone (Volpone)
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“the sun the sea will soon both stand still, than her eternal tongue”
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Volpone (Volpone)
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“I have read them all”
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Volpone (LP)
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“good sir have patience"
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Volpone (Celia)
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“kill me rather”
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Volpone (celia)
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"we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself."
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Paradise Lost (Adam)
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“ show yourself obedient, and a wife”
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Volpone (Corvino)
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"For nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study houshold good. And good works in her husband to promote."
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Volpone (adam)
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“bright as your gold, lovely as your gold”
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Volpone (Volpone)
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“let me kiss with adoration thee”
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Volpone (volpone)
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“Render me more equal”
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PL (Eve)
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“but keep the odds of knowledge in my power without co partner”
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PL (Eve)
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"Stupidly good"
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PL (satan)
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women’s beauty was a flaw to men as they forget their natural superiority
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Milton
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“as when a wandering fire”
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PL (satan)
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“compact of unctuous vapour…”
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PL (description of satan)
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“serpent thy over praising leave in doubt the virtue of that fruit”
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PL (Eve)
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“the precise sin Eve is now committing… is murder”
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C.S Lewis
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"adam shall share with me bliss or woe”
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PL (Eve)
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“god our great forbidder”
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PL (Eve)
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“and adam wedded to another eve”
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PL (Eve)
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“confirmed then I resolve”
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PL (Eve)
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“from thy state mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe”
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PL (Adam)
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"domestic Adam”
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PL (Eve)
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"adam severe”
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PL (Eve)
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“contagious fire”
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PL
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“angry cupid (…) shot himself into me like a flame”
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Volpone (Volpone)
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“Adam fell through uxoriousness”
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CS LEWIS
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- bible says they’re made of the same skin
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genesis 2:4
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“innocence, that as a veil had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone”
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PL
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“persistent yet submiss”
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PL
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“submitting to what seemed remediless”
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PL
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“in women over trusting lets her will rule”
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PL
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“the more I see pleasures about me….”
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PL (Satan)
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“I have no wife parent child or ally”
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Volpone (volpone)
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“when I come to enforce (as I will do)”
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Volpone (Mosca)
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“Ventured higher than my lot”
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PL (Satan)
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“goddess among god”
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PL (Satan)
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"resplendent eve, empress of this fair world”
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PL (Satan)
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“wanton growth”
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PL (Eve)
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“not just, not god; not feared then nor obeyed”
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PL (Satan)
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“can envy dwell in heavenly breasts”
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PL (Satan)
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“made intricate seem straight”
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PL (about satan)
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“but am I sole heir”
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PL (carrion birds)
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“tis no sin love’s fruit to steal”
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Volpone (volpone)
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“worthy lover”
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Volpone (Volpone)
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“my Celia, my lover”
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Volpone (Volpone)
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“there frame a will, whereto you shall inscribe my master your sole air”
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Volpone (Mosca)
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“mine own project”
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Volpone (Corbaccio)
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“tis aurum palpabile, if not potabile” (gold that can be felt, if not drunk)
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Volpone (Mosca)
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“lusty and full of juice”
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Volpone (Volpone)
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“Why your gold is such another medicine”
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Volpone (Mosca)
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“subtle snake”
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Volpone (Mosca)
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“serpent subtle”
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PL (Satan)
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“beastial slime”
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PL (Satan)
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“All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites, or sub-parasites.”
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Volpone (Mosca)
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“dropped from above”
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Volpone (Mosca)
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“o’ foul decent”
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PL (Satan)
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“Shoot through the air as nimbly as a star; Turn short as doth a swallow”
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Volpone (Mosca)
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“fetch me my gown my furs and night caps”
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Volpone (Volpone)
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"fine devil" (5.3.46) “how his villainy becomes him”
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Volpone (Volpone)
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“let me kiss thee”
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Volpone (Volpone)
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“O, more than if I had enjoyed the wench;
The pleasure of all womankind’s not like it’ |
Volpone (Volpone)
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“Like a temptation of the devil”
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Volpone (Volpone)
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“fair enticing fruit”
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PL
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“I am cozened, cheated by a parasite slave”
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Volpone (Corbaccio)
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„quick comedy refined”
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Volpone (PROLOGUE)
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"is an imitation of the common errors of our life,"
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Sir Philip Sidney - on comic
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„too grim for comedy‟
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Goldberg
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"how impossible it is to keep up any pleasurable interest in a tale in which there is no goodness of heart in any of the prominent characters. "
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Coleridge
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"Why, this is better than rob Churches, yet:
Or fat, by eating (once a Month) a Man." |
Volpone (volpone)
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" All these characters are so ill-conditioned that
they forbid the sympathy on which comedy by Jonson‟s own rule must rely. " |
Griffith
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„and heaven never fails the innocent.‟
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Volpone (Celia)
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"monster of men, swine, goat, wolf, parricide‟
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Volpone (Corvino)
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"a whore/of most hot exercise, more than a partridge‟
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Volpone (Corbaccio)
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„The fox shall here uncase"
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Volpone (Volpone )
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"I am Volpone, this is my knave
This, his own knave; this avarice‟s fool: This, a chimera of wittol, fool and knave…." |
Volpone (Volpone )
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„this is called the mortifying of a fox.‟
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Volpone (Volpone )
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The character of Volpone oversteps the limits of the
comic. His fall leaves us more disturbed than exhilarated… |
Herford
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„you hurt your innocence, suing for the guilty.‟
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Volpone (1st Avocatori)
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„A more delightful comedy might be produced by making Celia the ward or niece of Corvino instead of his wife and Bonario her lover"
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Coleridge
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„Mischief feed/ Like beasts till they be fat and then they bleed.‟
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Volpone (first Avocatori )
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"Good morning to the day, and next my gold!
Open the shrine that I may see my saint " |
Volpone (Volpone)
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“grow in knowledge, as the gods who all things know”
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PL (EVE)
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‘how ready is heaven to those that pray’
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Volpone (Celia)
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“ ‘Volpone’ is a repudiation for the character of Volpone”
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Riggs
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