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Mind Map by Katie Newton, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Katie Newton
almost 7 years ago
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Critics for Rossetti/Webster
- Dr James Sharpio
- Webster
- 'Troubled soul'
- 'Fascinated by realism'
- 'Bosola reflects Webster in that
he is an outsider'
- He 'saw life in the prism of the
theatre'
- 'Troubled soul'
- Jacobean Theatre
- Audience are within touching distance of the players
- 'Light has a very deliberate
effect'
- 'Actors wore pearl dust to
sparkle in the light'
- Audience are within touching distance of the players
- The period/historical context
- Plague killed 1 in 7 - 'excess of death'
- The English were 'shaken by
religious change'
- Plague killed 1 in 7 - 'excess of death'
- Webster
- Todd Borlik
- 'Life was as turbulent as Webster
was depicting'
- 'The Protestant church felt that the Catholic
church were abusing power'
- 'Webster's Cardinal arguably represents
these contemporary Protestant feelings'
- 'Webster's Italian Catholic setting
offers him the opportunity to
critique religion without censorship'
- 'Life and death are not distinct rounds - the
Duchess' echo suggests a blurring of
boundaries in this respect'
- 'Webster has a fondness for really
grotesque comparisons'
- 'Life was as turbulent as Webster
was depicting'
- R.S White
- 'The Duchess is inescapably
the victim of others' evil'
- 'The Duchess is inescapably
the victim of others' evil'
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