Join Brittany Chandler, Rafe Terrezzi, Ian Harkins, Levi Morger, Claire Curtis-Ward, Samantha Blinn, Emily Ota, Zoë Goslin & Ariana Karp as we tear through Act II of The Duchess of Malfi! As we had a lot of new participants, Ariana and Emily recap the Jacobean era, equivocation, John Webster & Jacobean language. We discuss our previous experience with the play which wonderfully ranged from some participants never having read or seen the play to one of our participants who has been in the full play twice, once as Bosola and once as Ferdinand (looking at you Levi)!
Other discussion topics include:
- Why is it a "hot" or "sexy" play?
- The muscularity of the language
- The constant threat of death
- What does Bosola want? Could we call this play "Bosola's transformation?"
- The abuse of the old woman. *Note to all: use "abortive hedgehog" as an insult at some point in your life.
- The quick changes from verse (where there is a rhythm scheme) to prose in Bosola's speeches
- The Elizabethan significance of green apricocks with regards to pregnancy
- Relationships between each character and the audience-how do they change over the course of the play?
Elizabethan apricocks.