This week Emily Ota, Levi Morger, Brittany Chandler, Samantha Blinn, Claire Curtis-Ward & Ariana Karp discuss Act III of the Duchess of Malfi. Things are getting craaahzy…we spend quite a few minutes just trying to figure out everything that happens in this Act!

Other discussion topics include:

Ferdinand and the Cardinal find out that Antonio is the father of the Duchess's children! Escandoloso! What does this mean to them?
Ritual and religion in the play
The role of the dumbshow in classical theatre
The relationship between Cariola and Duchess and generally the relationships between great ladies and their handmaidens
The Duchess and Antonio's private farewell in public
Why the Jacobean obsession with incestuous relationships?
How danger creeps into the domestic sphere in the bedroom scene
We end with Levi reading us a poem about a dagger by Jorge Luis Borges

By the way, Britt's computer is fine and King Arthur the pup is still as cute as ever!