Critic Quotes M4M- On specific characters (unfinished)

What do Bates and Rasmussen (2022) say about Lucio?

‘Lucio plays a seductive lucifer to the Duke’s God’

‘Lucio speaks deep truths in a light language’

‘It is almost the first law of the Shakespearean universe that the voice of the devil’s advocate should not be silenced’

What does Gibbons (1991) say about Mistress Overdone and Juliet?

‘From the point of view of the law and the Church Juliet is, though young, also an image of vice and sin’

‘Though Mistress Overdone and Juliet are contrasted as opposite images of womanhood, there emerge disconcerting similarities between them’

What does Gibbons (1991) say about Pompey as a character?

‘Pompey’s nimbleness in word play is a mark of his general resourcefulness’

‘Pompey generally conforms to the spirit of carnival, uninhibited, spontaneous, mocking, inverting authorities forms and procedures’

What does Lennox (1755) say about Isabella as a character?

‘A mere Vixen in her Virtue’ with the ‘Manners of an affected Prude’

What does Hudson (1848) say about Isabella as a character?

‘Among the finest, in some respects the very finest, of Shakespeare’s female characters… a saintly anchoress, clad in all the sweet austere composures of womanhood’

What does Cowden Clarke (1863) say about Isabella as a character?

‘I think it is a reproach upon men that they should treat injuriously one of the most -beautiful-souled among Shakespeare’s beautifully-souled women’

What does Eisaman Maus (2008) say about Isabella?

‘Some modern critics have found (Isabella’s) defiance heroic, others chilling or selfish’