identity and autonomy

on Duchess ‘[Ferdinand’s] shears do come ultimately now / to clip the bird’s wings that’s already flown’ (women taking autonomy)

May ‘in warm wex hath emprented the cliket’, when she decides to have sex w D she ‘take swich impression that day’ (Han wants to mould her ‘warm wex with handes plye’) (women taking autonomy)

Bosola says Duchess bears her imprisonment ‘nobly’ ‘her silence … expressed more than if she spoke’ (women’s autonomy in their silence)

May ‘the bryde was broght abedde as stille as stoon’ (women’s autonomy in their silence)

Cariola says the Duchess is like a ‘picture in the gallery’ of ‘some revered monument / whose ruins are then pitied’ (women as objects to pity - limited autonomy)

‘fresshe’ May, doesn’t speak but we feel sorry for her (women as objects to pity - limited autonomy)

‘I am Duchess of Malfi still’ + [kneels] before her death (women’s stoicism and strength - autonomy)

INSERT quote re May deceiving Jan at end (women’s cunningness - autonomy)

‘ambition, madam, is a great man’s madness’ (what dangerous games men play - ambition)

‘For love is blind alday and may nat see’ (what dangerous games men play - love)

Antonio speaks w many [aside]s in A2S3, Dychess says ‘Antonio, the master of our household’ (who gets to speak/tell stories/is important?)

Chaucer has common people speak to us - characters only ridiculed for personal situation and not station eg Merchant married for ‘monthes two’ and host says ‘sin ye michele known of that art’ mockingly, described as a ‘worthy man’ in GP (who gets to speak/tell stories/is important?)

Ant seeks to make a ‘friendly reconcilement’ with C when unaware of D’s death (how should autonomy be used to resolve? cooperation)

Pluto ‘be no lenger wrooth; / I yeve it up’ after conflict with P (how should autonomy be used to resolve? cooperation)

Ant remarks ‘this foul melancholy / will poison all [Bosola’s] goodness’

Bosola speaks in prose, but also lots of asides (audience is close to him and not encouraged to judge class but actions), also [kills the servant] in final scene while saving Card is ‘nothing else but murder’ (how one’s identity is undermined/judged)

Merchant reflects issues ‘when tendre youthe hath wedded stouping age’ (issue w J isn’t his age but his actions despite it) (how one’s identity is undermined/judged)

Ferd suffers from ‘lycanthropia’ ‘o’erflows / such melancholy humour’ (suffering from an overextension of power onto female subject)

Jan ‘this noble Januarie free, / amidde his lust and his prosperitee, / is women blind’ (suffering from an overextension of power onto female subject)

Ferd ‘what appears in him mirth is merely outside’, B tells F he and C ‘have a pair of hearts are hollow graves, / rotten and rotting others’ (an autonomy defined by moral or SOCIAL corruption)

Jan ‘toook a mirour, polisshed bright, / and sette it in a commune market’ (an autonomy defined by MORAL or social corruption)

Ant remarks Card is a ‘melancholy churchmen’ (autonomous actions being sinful - we judge heavily)

Pluto calls Dam ‘the lechour in the tree’ (autonomous actions being sinful - we judge less heavily)