Brittany Chandler, Mitchel Kawash, Samantha Blinn, Parker Denton, and Ariana Karp discuss Act I of The White Devil.

Topics of discussion include:

Carriage humor
Social Darwinism
Vittoria and Bracciano’s sexuality within the language
Flamineo’s power and agency coming from ‘playing’ the man, rejecting traditional female avenues of power
Why do Jacobean brothers pimp out their sisters?
Capitalism and Jacobean personal relationships
Cuckolded husbands and their portrayal in Jacobean drama and comedy
Disconnect between how Vittoria is described and how she appears
Farcical elements of the second scene
Flamineo, chaos and motivation
Webster and Religion