UGC NET JUNE 2023 I Jacobean Drama Complete Works I By Prof. Aishwarya Puri

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@Jerry_510 Жыл бұрын

At 27:32 it's 'Piers Penniless' by Thomas Nashe. Piers Plowman is by William Langland.

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The Duchess of Malfi (Summary) Originally title:- "The Tragedy of the Duchess of Malfi". Important characters:- The Duchess, Cardinal, Ferdinand, Julia, Bosola, Cariola, Antonio, Delio. Informations:- The drama is a Jacobean revenge tragedy written by English dramatist John Webster in 1612-1613. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then later to a larger audience at The Globe, in 1613-1614. It was published in 1623. The setting of the drama is Amalfi, Rome and Milan. The play is based on the real life story of Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Malfi, that occurred between 1508 and 1513. The play begins as a love story, when the Duchess marries beneath her class, and ends as a nightmarish tragedy as her two brothers undertake their revenge, destroying themselves in the process. The complexity of some of the play's characters, particularly Bosola and the Duchess, and Webster's poetic language, have led many critics to consider The Duchess of Malfi among the greatest tragedies of English renaissance drama. Summary:- The recently widowed Duchess falls in love with Antonio, a lowly steward. Her brothers, Ferdinand and the Cardinal, forbid her from remarrying, seeking to defend their inheritance and desperate to avoid a degrading association with a social inferior. Suspicious of her, Ferdinand hire Bosola, Cardinal's servant, to spy on the Duchess. She elopes with Antonio and bears him three children secretly. Bosola eventually discovers that the Duchess is pregnant but does not know who the father is. Ferdinand, shown by now to be a depraved lunatic, threatens and disowns the Duchess. In an attempt to escape, she and Antonio concoct a story that Antonio has swindled her out of her fortune and must flee into exile. The Duchess takes Bosola into her confidence, unaware that he is Ferdinand's spy, and arranges for him to deliver her jewellery to Antonio at his hiding-place in Ancona. She will join them later, while pretending to make a pilgrimage to a nearby town. Cardinal hears of the plan, instructs Bosola to banish the two lovers, and sends soldiers to capture them. Antonio escapes with their eldest son, but the Duchess, her maid, and her two younger children are returned to Malfi and die at the hands of Bosola's executioners, who are under Ferdinand's orders. This experience leads Bosola to turn against the brothers, and he decides to take up the cause of revenge for the Duchess of Malfi. The Cardinal confesses his part in the killing of the Duchess to his mistress, Julia, then murders her with a poisoned Bible. Bosola overhears the Cardinal plotting to kill him, so he visits the darkened chapel to kill the Cardinal at his prayers. Instead, he mistakenly kills Antonio, who has just returned to Malfi to attempt a reconciliation with the Cardinal. Bosola then stabs Cardinal, who dies. In the brawl that follows, Ferdinand and Bosola stab each other to death. Antonio's elder son by the Duchess appears in the final scene and takes his place as the heir to the Malfi fortune. The son's decision is in spite of his father's explicit wish that he fly the court of princes, a corrupt and increasingly deadly environment. The conclusion is controversial for some readers because they find reason to believe the inheriting son is not the rightful heir of the Duchess. The play briefly mentions a son who is the product of her first marriage and would therefore have a stronger claim to the duchy. Other scholars believe the mention of a prior son is just a careless error in the text.

@manunain1060 Жыл бұрын

The Duchess of Malfi written in ( 1613) published 1623 by John Webster Jacobean Revenge tragedy in five act . language early modern English..... setting Malfi Roman Milan (1504) characters of the Duchess of Malfi ...The Duchess, Antonio bologna ,Delio ,Daniel de Bosola ,The cardinal (brother of the Duchess), Ferdinand (the Duke of Calabria ...twin brother of the Duchess) and other minor characters....Julia ,Malateste,and doctor. Summary 👉 The Duchess of Malfi tell the story of the spirited Duchess and her love trustworthy Steward Antonio 🤵 they marry secretly despite the opposition of her two brothers Ferdinand 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 and Cardinal . Although she bears three children 👶👶👶.she refuses to name the father eventually betrayed by Bosola 👮 a spy the Duchess and her family flee but they are intercepted Antonio and the oldest child a escape Ferdinand orders Bosola to strangle the Duchess her two younger children. In typical fashion for revenge tragedy the final act is one of Carnage. All are killed except for eldest son of the Duchess and Antonio . Webster 's the Duchess of Malfi is often regarded as the last great tragedy of the Elizabethan and Jacobean era.