Ferdinand

Desire/ Incestuous obsession x6

• “root up her goodly forests, blast her meads”

• “Purge infected blood” 

• “Happily, with some strong-thighed bargeman” 

• “Tis not your whores’ milk that shall quench my wild-fire but your whores’ blood” 

• “Damn her! That body of hers, while that my blood ran pure in’t” 

• “She and I were twins” 

Gender/ misogyny x3

• “Vile woman” 

• “lusty widow” 

• “Methinks her fault and beauty, blended together, show like leprosy” 

Violence/ Conflict x4

• “This was my father’s poniard. Do you see? I’d loath to see it look rusty” 

• “(gives her a dead man’s hand)” 

• “(gives her a poniard) Die then, quickly” 

• “The Lord Ferdinand laughs like a deadly cannon” 

Madness x5

• “I have this night digged up a mandrake” 

• “Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle!” 

• “(Throws himself on the ground)” 

• “They call lycanthropia” 

• “howled ... said he was wolf ... hairy on the inside” 

Corruption/ power

“The witchcraft lies rank in her blood”