Sex and sexuality malfi chaucer

Exclamative Act one ferdinand re duchess’ sexuality

Lusty widow!

Ferdinand quote about his thoughts and the Duchess’ sexuality

My imagination will carry me to see her in this shameful act of sin

Julia quote Act 5 about pleasure and women overall

We are great women of pleasure

Phallic metaphor of Ferdinand’s when he enters the Duchess’ chambers

This was my fathers poniardA

Antonio Act 3 quote about his ‘rule’ or domain of power

My rule is only in the night

Act 3 quote from Ferdinand after the reputation/love tale & damning the Duchess’ choice

Enjoy thy lustful and wretched life

The Duchess on how she had to secretly express her sexual passiona

Forced to express our violent passions in dreams and riddles

Duchess Ferdinand exchange about female virginity/sexuality act one

Diamonds are oft the most value that have passed through many jewlers hands/ whores by that rule are precious

Duchess quote about how her sexuslity is tempting fate/the marraige bed

I would’ve led fortune by the hand unto the marriage bed

Cardinal to Julia about what he has done for her Acct 2

“tamed elephant oft your perch” “a notorious strumpet”

Julia Act Five about concealing sexuality and modesty

You’ll say I’m a wanton! nice modesty in ladies is but a troublesome familiar that haunts them

January’s drive for sexual pleasure

Driven alway by his bodily delit

In the garden quote about Damyan and May

Gan pullen up the smok and in he throng

January’s bastardisation of the song of songs & how he wants may sexually

How fairer been thy brestes than is wyn

January fantasising about the physical qualities of his ideal wife

Hir myddel smol, hir arms long and tendre

Shaw, 21st C about May’s adultery/January

“May’s adultery is revenge for January’s treatment of her”

Tolliver, 2001 on January’s lust

January’s lust blinds him to reality

Quote about marriage & January enjoying its pleasures

Drunken in the pleasaunce of marriage

Quote about what January finds attractive about May

Her freshe beauty and her age tender

Burnley, 20th century AO5 quote about how May is made a sexual object

May is immediately recognisable as the passive object of defilment

Marcus, 21st century critic about the Cardinal and his religious negligence (and with that his sins)

The Cardinal is a thoroughly corrupt and sexually active man… who easily tosses of his religious vocation