Status: DOM
Cards (21)
- “crows, pies and caterpillars feed on them” = memento mori use to describe sychophants
- “I am your creature” = Bosola submitting himself to the brothers
- ‘[B] as the proletariat being oppressed by the elitist ruling class’ – Marxist critics
- “how fearfully shows his ambition now” = Delio thinks Antonio has married for status and not love
- “this foul melancholy will poison all his goodness” = Antonio's description about Bosola; acknowledges him as a malcontent
- AO3: The Patronage System
- A political party after winning an election, giving government jobs to supporters, friends and relatives
- George Villiers = Powerful English courtier during the late 16th century known as King James’s favourite.
- “like plum trees that grow crooked” “rich & overladen with fruit” = Bosola's description of the brothers
- "fame" = Duchess aware of her status & reputation
- “sway your high blood” = Cardinal to the Duchess; acknowleges their status as a family
- DoM is a ‘crisis of aristocracy’ - Rose
- DoM is a ‘warning of corruption which flows from the existence of power’ – White
- AO3: Sumptuary Laws
- Restricts social class in this period; continued in England until the late 16th century
- Physical material and barrier between different classes
- “I would hang on their ears like a horse-leech till I were full” = Bosola being a sychophant
- Bosola's ‘Discontentment issues from lack of reward’ – Selzer
- Bosola is an ‘intellectual malcontent’ - Billington
- “Possessed with the devil” = Description of the Cardinal
- AO3: Othello
- Desmonda & Othello
- Women would never fall in love of someone that is of a lower status
- Must be trickery
- Parallel Duchess & Antonio's relationship due to difference in status
- ‘D & A marriage is revolutionary’ - Crompton.
- “Lord of Misrule” = title given to Antonio by the Duchess while in bed
- I am Duchess of Malfi still = Duchess announcing her title
- AO3: "Lord of Misrule"
- Occurred during the 14-17th century allowing the peasants to become upper class citizens