Saturday, February 14, 2009

Questions of the Week! The Duchess of Malfi

Q1. Discuss Bosola's mercenariness...how does he attempt to justify his own actions to himself? Is he believable?

Q2. Is the Duchess a good mother to her children?

Q3. Does the play end on a note of hope or pessimism?

Q4. Discuss Webster's use of stage spectacle in the play. Is he being deliberately provocative and gratuitous? Or is he carefully building and defeating playgoer expectation? Or is he conveying visually the horror of the unspoken of the play?

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