Act 3 quotes

• 'You have been a stranger long at court' - Antonio to Delio A3


  Analeptic to A1S1 - reminder of corruption
• 'The common rabble do directly say / She is a strumpet' - Antonio about gossip of Duchess 


  Body politic vs body natural - reputation and greek chorus
• 'He's a mere stick of sugar candy' - Duchess about Malateste


  Witty, rebellious
• 'When I choose / A husband, I will marry for your honour' - Duchess to Antonio 


  Dramatic irony, double entendre
• 'Go! Be safe / In your own innocency.' - Ferdinand to Duchess

  Dramatic irony, rising tension/pity and fear

  Exclamative - excitement or sadism

  Enjambement - ironic emphasis on safe
• 'The witchcraft lies in her rank blood' - F 


  Witch/evil imagery - women disobeying a man is unfathomable, damned by society

  Blood imagery - obsession with great chain of being, Ferdinand's lust
• 'My rule is only in the night' - Antonio

  'When you lie with my lady / Do you rise so early?' - Cariola


  Sexual innuendo and phallic imagery
• 'Venus had two soft doves / To draw her chariot: I must have another' - A


  Venus symbol of love and romance, contrast to Cardinal and Julia - Duchess and Antonio are presented as pure love in contrast
• [Enter Ferdinand unseen] 


  Proto-gothic