Punishment: DOM

• “I am married” ... “I will never marry” “I will marry for your honour” = the Duchess lying to her brothers about marriage
• "Despair" = the aim of Ferdinand's punishment for the Duchess; seen as sinful
• AO3: Marriage Witnesses (1604)

  • Required 2 witnesses after James I's accession
• ‘a feminist play about a woman who is fighting for her autonomy’ – Mirren
• "Cover her face: mine eyes dazzle: she died young" = Ferdinand feeling regret after killing the Duchees
• “The wolf shall find her grave” = signs of Ferdinand lycanthropy
• “The sight of the Duchess’ face awakens Ferdinand to what he has done” – Bradbrook
• “Madness and damnation, the complete descent of man into beast symbolised by the lycanthropia of Ferdinand” - Ribner
• AO3: Macbeth & Madness

  • After plotting regicide Lady Macbeth goes mad
  • "mind diseased"
• AO5: Frecknall (2019)

  • Production showed Ferdinand on all fours
  • Lycanthropy
• Calvinism

  • Reformed Christanity influenced by John Calvin
  • During 16th century Protestant Reformation
• AO3: Calvinists View on Marriages

  • Secret/clandestine Marriages were sinful and illicit
  • Denies participation of God
• ‘Women have…a thousand ways to deceive … full of fraud’- Swetnam (1615)
• “Boil their bastard”, “I could kill her now” = Ferdinand threatening the Duchess after hearing her secret
• AO3: Lycanthropy

  • “The Damnable Life & Death of Stubbe Peeter” (1590) by Geroge Bores
  • English source for early modern ideas of werewolf behaviour