English Critics

‘heaven of domesticity’

Gilbert and Gubar

death is a time of ‘ambiguity, dream, delay’

Leighton

TDOM is ‘a kind of Ars Moriendi’

Gibbons

‘macho environment of the PRB’

Barton

men are ‘absent, weak or threatening’

Terry L Spaise

not ‘a lack of moral vision’ but ‘apocalyptic sensibility’

Marche

‘heavenly judgement that awaits them’

Marche

Bosola’s betrayal = Judas’ betrayal

Morrison

Catholic nostalgia, ‘Protestant fortitude and Catholic tinged humility’

Borlik

feigned pilgrimage = Holy Family’s flight to Egypt

Hopkins

TDOM ‘champions Protestant ideals of marriage’ through child

Dowd

TDOM ‘dramatises tension’ about widowhood

Mikesell

the Duchess’ dignity in death evokes Christ and Protestant martyrs

Borlik

Pamphlet wars

Smithers, Swetnam

‘mash up’ of revenge and domestic tragedy

Smith

‘aesthetics of secrecy’

Leighton