gender roles

• 'I am armed 'gainst misery, bent to all sways of the oppressor's will: there's no deep valley, but near some great hill' - Duchess, act 3
• 'I account this world a tedious theatre, For I do play a part in't 'gainst my will.'- Duchess, act 4
• 'Whether the spirit of greatness or of woman reign most in her, I know not, but it shows a fearful madness'- Cariola, act 1
• 'I have taken you off your melancholy perch, bore you upon my fist'- Cardinal, act 2
• 'Were I a man, I'd beat that counterfeit face into thy other!'- Duchess, act 3
• 'These words should be mine, and all the parts you have spoke, if some part of it would not have savoured flattery'- Antonio (1.2)