Cardinal and Ferdinand are both questionable, with Cardinal being completely evil. The way each character has its own arc which makes perfect sense, and how they end up even if it is bittersweet.Īntonio wants to try to diffuse the situation before things get out of hand, and The Duchess stays brave in the face of her brothers’ actions. It’s the character dynamics, internal and external that make this play interesting. They value love and family over everything else and honorable people. The characters of The Duchess and Antonio are the ones who are good from start to end. The play is dramatic in its approach, but since it’s made to be performed, it makes sense and didn’t bother me much. It’s very difficult to explain the plot in brief because there are a lot of things going on with numerous characters. Once the secret is revealed, their plan is set in motion. Although Cardinal and Ferdinand know about the children and are furious, they bide their time till they know who her husband is. They get married secretly and have had three kids over the years. The Duchess becomes very fond of him, and it is clear that Antonio’s intentions toward the duchess are out of love. They show it as if it’s to keep their family honor and lineage true, but actually want to steal her inheritance by not letting her have children. The Duchess is forbidden to remarry by her brothers. She has two brothers, Cardinal and Duke Ferdinand, who is her twin. The Duchess is a young widow and rules the town of Amalfi. It is set in Roman Catholic Italy and is loosely based on a true story. I do not altogether look up at your title the ancientest nobility being but a relic of time past, and the truest honour indeed being for a map to confer honour on himself, which your learning strives to propagate, and shall make you arrive at the dignity of a great example.The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster is a revenge tragedy play. That I may present my excuse why, being a stranger to your lordship, I offer this poem to your patronage, I plead this warrant:-men who never saw the sea yet desire to behold that regiment of waters, choose some eminent river to guide them thither, and make that, as it were, their conduct or postilion: by the like ingenious means has your fame arrived at my knowledge, receiving it from some of worth, who both in contemplation and practice owe to your honour their clearest service. Hon. George Harding, Baron Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle, and Knight of the Order of the Bath to the illustrious Prince Charles.

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