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‘flights  a  soft  light  over  what  in  it’s  natural  state  would  glare  with  salutary  and  
repulsive  horror’
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‘the  cardinal  is  a  morally  compromised  man  amid  this  morally  compromised  
society’  (Corinne  s
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’  (john  Kerrigan)  
futile  attempts  at  comedy  merely  disgust  one
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’      
‘tedious  and  superfluous’    (t
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‘contradictory  insight  and  callousness’  (Thelma  greenfield
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’  (William  Gifford  about  annabella)    
‘almost   a   monster   of   egotism’/’virtually   a   moral   defective’     (t
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’    
(marion  lomax)    
The  theme  of  incest  is  ‘the  ultimate  theme  of  one  who  feels  the  imaginative  pull  
of  the  frowned  –  on’  (heilman
...
’    (mark  stavig)  
‘fords  attraction  to  normally  taboo  themes,  such  as  incest,  may  be  accounted  for  
by  his  need  to  et  the  attention  of  audiences  who  thought  threy  had  already  seen  
everything
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      Worse,   while   Giovanni   believes   his   predicament   to   be  
the   product   pf   his   fate,   he   actually   seems   to   use   fate   as   an   excuse   to   justify   his  
tragic   flaws   of   uncontrollable   lust   and   intellectual   pride
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    Throughout   the   play   reason   is   the   target   and  
paradox   the   tool,   the   foolish   act   reasonable   and   the   reasonable   act   foolishly
...
’    (Corinne  s,  abate)  
‘thus  two  potentially  saveable  individuals  find  themselves  contaminated  by  the  
surrounding  culture
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’    (laurie  finke)  
ford  was    a  ‘decadent  romantic  who  delighted  in  melodramatic  ploits  and  revolt  
against  the  established  moral  order
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’    (Arnold  Schmidt)  
‘the   discovery   of   annabellas   infidelity   wounds   soranzo   at   his   most   vulnerable  
point:   his   pride   of   possession
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’     (Sharon  
Hamilton)    



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