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40 Cards in this Set
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"Henceforth I'll never lie with you, by this, this wedding-ring."
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Isabella - Uses Bracciano's earlier words - pretends it's her decision and therefore fault that they are to split - Perfect wife? Sacrificing her own reputation to save his~
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"Thou shalt go to bed to my lord."
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Flamineo - He is chiefly responsible for the affair - It's in his interest that the Duke is kept happy
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"Temptation to lust proves not the act."
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Vittoria
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"Sum up my faults, I pray...All the poor crimes that you can charge me with."
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Vittoria
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"Had with poisoned herbs of Thessaly at first been planted, made a nursery... rather than a burial plot for both your honours."
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Cornelia
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"I'll seat you above law and above scandal."
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Bracciano - Corrupt society
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"You shall to me be at once Dukedom, health, wife, children, friends and all."
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Bracciano
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"I would fain know where lies the mass of wealth which you have hoarded for my maintenance."
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Flamineo
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"When knaves come to preferment, they rise as gallouses are raised i'th'low countries, one upon another's shoulders."
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Flamineo
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"Would I had rotted in some surgeon's house... ere I had served Bracciano."
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Flamineo (lying)
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"In sooth, I'll have it; nay I will but change my jewel for your jewel."
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Bracciano
*Sexual innuendo - He's only after sex |
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"When to my rescue there arose... And both were struck dead by that sacred yew."
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Vittoria
*Asking for protection or for Camillo and Isabella to be killed? "Yew" = YOU - Clearly asking something of Bracciano |
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"And shall I, having a path so open and so free to my preferment, still retain your milk..."
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Flamineo
*He sees a way to better his fortunes (classic malcontent) |
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"Women are like curst dogs: civility keeps them tied all day time, but they are let loose at midnight; then they do most good or most mischief."
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Flamineo
*Very misogynous - typical view on women in Jacobean England |
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"Darkness hides your blush."
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Flamineo
*Blushing because she's uncomfortable? - Not the evil temptress she is accused of being? OR She's not actually blushing - practised in flirting - is playing Bracciano/ false modesty? |
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"Poor heart, break! These are the killing griefs which dare not speak."
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Isabella
*She genuinely loved Bracciano - She is the epitome of the 'good wife' but still not good enough? |
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"The birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair..."
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Flamineo
*Reference to Vittoria's unhappy marriage to Camillo |
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"And to my acquaintance received in dowry with you not one julio."
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Monticelso
*Neither Camillo nor Bracciano received anything for marrying her - What did she have to do to gain the favour of powerful men? (Whore?) |
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"She hath taught him in a dream to make away with his duchess and her husband."
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Flamineo
*Did she? Is she as guilty as the rest or innocent? |
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"Flea-bitings."
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Refers to the poor - Shows social divide of the poor and the rich
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"I am prompt as lightning at your service."
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Flamineo is the queen of all sycophants. Shows how eager he is to do anything for Bracciano in the hope that he'll receive some sort of reward.
[CONTEXT] reflects the sycophancy of King James I court - people buying titles etc. |
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"There's Paulo Giordano Orsini, The Duke of Bracciano, now lives in Rome, and by close pandarism seeks to prostitute the honour of Vittoria Corombona."
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Lodovico - The affair is not secret, everyone knows
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"I'll make Italian cut-works in their guts if ever I return."
"I am patient. I have some ready to be executed with the knave hangman." |
Lodovico - Machiavellian behaviour
*Forshadowing? He is directly involved in most of the murders/plots |
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"Excellent devil!"
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Flamineo (about Vittoria) - He thinks she's evil/ aware that she's just sentenced two people to death - Is she?
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"Small mischiefs are by greater made secure."
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In the light of murders his affair with Vittoria is nothing - It is the deaths of Isabella and Camillo that secure the affair
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"Let guilty men remember their black deeds do lean on crutches, made of slender reeds."
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Giovanni
Last lines - the moral: evil deeds (plotting, adultery, murder etc.) can be destroyed |
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"O happy are they that never saw the court, nor ever knew great men but by report." [Vittoria dies]
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Corruption of the court - reflection of Jacobean England - Only suffering comes of corruption
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"Trust a woman? - Never, never."
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Flamineo
*Misogynistic |
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"I have held it. A wretched and most miserable life, which is not able to die."
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Flamineo
*Malcontent - always whinging |
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"This marriage confirms me happy."
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Flamineo - All of his plots are coming to their conclusion
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"I'll speak not one word more."
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Vittoria
*Recognises the futility - She CAN speak to defend herself but she has no real power |
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"I will advance you all; for you Vittoria, think of a duchess' title."
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Bracciano - Vittoria is told she'll be marrying him - She has no power over her life when faced by these powerful men - women = 'chattel'/possessions
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"Through darkness diamonds spread their richest lights."
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The light/goon in an dark/corrupt society
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"A rape, a rape."
"Yes, you have ravaged justice, forced her to do your pleasure." |
Justice is personified as a woman - The arraignment has utterly violated justice
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"A most notorious strumpet."
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Monticelso (about Vittoria)
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"Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?"
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Vittoria
*In cases of adultery it was always the woman at fault for tempting the man to evil - Eve tempted Adam and so they fell from the Garden of Eden |
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"If the devil did ever take good shape, behold his picture."
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Is Vittoria evil? Ambiguous character...
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"What? Because we are poor, shall we be vicious?"
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Class divide: Upper class conception that the poor were less refined/good
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"If thou dishonour thus thy husband's bed, be thy life short as are the funeral tears."
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Cornelia
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"My son the pandar. Now I find our house sinking to ruin. Earthquakes leave behind where they have tyrannized, iron, or lead, or stone, but - woe to ruin - violent lust leaves none."
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Forshadowing the climax - they all die as a result of the affair -> Flamineo and Bracciano kill Camillo and Isabella, Marcello -> Francisco and Lodovico kill Bracciano, Flamineo, Vittoria, Zanche....
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