TDOM + Critics

• Swetnam (1615)


  "women are crooked by nature" + "wanton will she quickly procured man's fall"
• Elizabeth I (from Leah Marcus)


  ""persistent rumours of Elizabeth's sexual dalliances... of children born"
• Sandra Gilbert


  "Eve is Adam's intellectual inferior"
• Callaghan


  "Major female characters in these plays may indeed repeat the historical transgression of Eve"
• Marr (2014)


  "story of jealousy deceit and murder"
• Aristotle

  "a woman is an inferior thing and a slave beneath consideration"
• Phillip Gallagher


  "Eve's sinless fall into deception renders her far less culpable for original sin than her undecieved husband"
• Callaghan


  "Webster's Duchess exercises transgressive, independent sexual agency in defiance of social conventions"
• Murray


  "Antonio is modelled on the idea of Christian gentility"
• Sandra Gilbert


  Milton is the "patriarch of patriarchs"
• William Blake 


  Milton was "of the Devil's party without knowing it"
• Gunpower Plot of 1605 


  a group of Catholics attempted to depose the king
• T.S Eliot 


  Adam and Eve are "not types but prototypes"
• Orazino Busino 


  TDOM is purely "in condemnation of the grandeur of the Catholic church"