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Marriage
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Critics: WD
 Jardine: Vittoria is a cautionary tale against female independence
 Luckyj: “rhetorical crossdressing”
 Hurt: inverted rituals and mock engagement scene
 Critics: WoB
 Carruthers: “capitalist entrepreneur”
 Carruthers: “the important spoils [of marriage] for Alisoun are neither children nor sensual
gratification but independence”
 Oberembt: “merchandises sexual favours”
 Oberembt: “holds her queynte for raunson”
Business transaction
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“That I may bear my beard out of the level/Of my lord’s stirrup” → Flamineo as pander
“[Camillo] received in dowry with you not one julio” → Monticelso attacking Vittoria
“goode men […] riche and olde” → Alisoun on her first three husbands
“I wolde no lenger in the bed abide […] Till he had maad his raunson unto me” → supports C
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A husband also had the right to all assets formerly owned by his wife
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” → Vittoria to Monticelso
“O poor charity!/Thou art seldom found in scarlet” → Vittoria to Monticelso
“If you be my accuser, pray cease to be my judge” → Vittoria to Monticelso
“And some there are which call it my black book/[…]/”…yet in it lurk/The names of many devils”
→ Monticelso to Francisco
“He railed upon me/And yet these crowns were told out and laid ready/Before he knew my voyage”
→ Lodovico, on how Monticelso clearly financed his revenge despite pretending otherwise
Tourist nature of pilgrimage vs religious value → WoB
Other Canterbury Tales: Monk goes hunting, Pardoner admits to selling false relics

Subversion/satire
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“Lodovico and Gasparo in the habit of Capuchins present him [Brachiano] in his bed with a crucifix
and hallowed candle” → stage directions on their subversion scene
“Devil Brachiano
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”/ “Pepetually” → Lodovico, then Gasparo, the English
confirming the parody of their Latin
“You have ta’en the sacrament to prosecute/Th’intended murder” → Francisco to Lodovico
“Experience, though noon auctoritee/ Were in this world, is right ynogh for me” → Alisoun
rewriting religious convention
“God bad for us to wexe and multiplie” → Alisoun interpreting the bible
“In al the parisshe wif ne was ther noon/That to the offringe bifore hire sholde goon” →
superficiality of church
“wise king, daun Solomon”/”the Apostel”/”wise astrologien, Daun Ptholome” → Alisoun interprets
these to further her argument
“what that I saugh him go/After the beere, me thought he hadde a paire/Of legges and of feet so
clene and faire etc
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Power
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Critics: WD
 MacNamara: malcontent
 Hurt: inverted rituals
 Belsey: social mobility
 Jardine: Vittoria is a cautionary tale
 Critics: WoB
 Cooper: “mangles St Jerome”
 Whinny: “She has overthrown the prohibitive morality of the medieval Church”
 Oberembt: “merchandises sexual favours”/ “holds her quente for raunson”
 Carruthers: “capitalist entrepreneur”
 Mann: estates satire
Patriarchal
 “Henceforth I’ll never lie with thee, by this,/ This wedding ring” → Brachiano divorcing Isabella,
 “Now by my birth you are a foolish, mad,/And jealous woman” → Fran’s reaction to I divorcing B
 “Did ever/Man dream awake till now? Remove this object” → Fran
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” → V essentially condemned for her beauty/fun spirit
 “Conspiring with a beard/Made me a graduate” → evidence of Flam
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” → L on V’s sexual power
 “I wolde no lenger in the bed abide […] Till he had maad his raunson unto me”
 Woman raped in Tale = ultimate manifestation of patriarchal power
Social
 “not a suit the richer” → Flam
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/What harms it justice?” → Francisco as machiavel
 Lower classes punished in place of their masters e
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matron/armourer
 “Theanne comth oure verray gentillesse of grace/It was no thing biquethe us with oure place” →
‘gentillesse’ not inherent in birth, comes with ‘grace’ (i
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person’s good character)
Religious
 “And some there are which call it my black book/[…]/”…yet in it lurk/The names of many devils”
→ Monticelso to Francisco
 “He railed upon me/And yet these crowns were told out and laid ready/Before he knew my voyage”
→ Lodovico, on how Monticelso clearly financed his revenge despite pretending otherwise
 “Auctoritee” → founded in religious texts
AO4
 Chastity belt/scold’s bridle
 Emerging merchant class/ Feudal system
 Corruption of Catholic Church

Death
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Critics: WD
 Jenkins: dumb show distances audiences from deaths
 Gill: linked to Jenkins – humour/death link skews our moral compass
 Luckyj: “metatheatrical awareness”
 Eliot: “skull beneath the skin”
 Hurt: inverted rituals
 Critics: WoB
 Carruthers: “capitalist entrepreneur”
 Whinny: “She has overthrown the prohibitive morality of the medieval Church and planted her
own pragmatic doctrine on the ruins”
 Kittredge: dramatic poem written for entertainment
Humour
 “shoot and run to him and tread upon him” → Zanche/Vittoria ‘killing’ Flam
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Thou art damned
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in suicide pact
“O, the way’s too dark and horrid! I cannot see – ” → Flamineo’s masterful ‘dying’ speech
“riseth” […] “I am not wounded/The pistols held no bullets: ‘twas a plot/To prove your kindness
to me” → humour in full force with this dark comic scene
Dumb shows, particularly Camillo’s murder by vaulting horse
“And with his fest he smoot me on the heed,/That in the floor I lay as I were deed” → A’s ‘death’
“Er I be deed, yet wol I kisse thee” → humour when A rises to slap Janekin in revenge

Sexual
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“That’s better; she must wear his jewel lower” → Flamineo at mock-engagement scene
“An excellent scholar […] Is he not a courtly gentleman?” → Flamineo on Camillo
“that hath an itch in’s hams” → asides made by Flam
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“I am opening your case hard” → Flamineo to Vitt
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Thou art damned
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 “Casta est quam nego rogavit” → Vittoria demonstrating her education by speaking Latin
 “O woman’s poor revenge/Which dwells but in the tongue” → Vittoria as she is condemned
 “Henceforth I’ll never lie with thee, by this,/ This wedding ring etc
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as he ostensibly praises C
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, rejoicing in his successful pandering
 “a blood as noble in this cheek/As ever was your mother’s”/”I must spare you till proof cry whore
to that” → Vitt, then Monticelso; unwittingly labels his mother a whore = support for Vitt
 “The wolf may prey the better” → Vittoria to Monticelso after B leaves the arraignment scene
 “As help me God, I laughe whan I thinke/How pitously a-night I made hem swinke!”
 “That many a night they songen ‘weilawey!’”
AO4
 Patriarchal culture/domestic violence/poor education of most contemporary women
 Webster’s legal training and The Devil’s Law Case
 Pilgrimage as tourism/ Chaucer’s Lollard sympathies



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