Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The White Devil
- Attitudes to women
- “Fortunes a right
whore”- Lodovico
- “Yet why should
ladies blush to hear
that named which
they do not fear to
handle”- Flamineo
- “O they are politic;
they know our
desire is increased
by the difficulty of
enjoying”- Flamineo
- "Women are like
cursed dogs: civility
keeps them tied all
daytime, but they are
let loose at midnight"-
Flamineo
- women are more
willingly and more
gloriously chaste
when they are
least restrained of
their liberty”-
Flamineo
- I will but change
my jewel for your
jewel”- Bracciano
- “O dissemblance”-
Bracciano
- Look upon other women,
with that patience they
suffer these slight wrongs,
and with what justice they
study to requite them: take
that course”- Francisco
- “What Turn’s fury”-
Francisco
- “I am resolved
were there a
second paradise to
lose this devil
would betray it” –
Monticelso
- “They are worse, worse than
dead bodies, which are begged
at gallows and wrought upon by
surgeons to teach man wherein
he is imperfect. What’s a whore?
She’s like a counterfeited coin”-
Monticelso
- “A whore is the true
material fire of hell”-
Monticelso
- “If the devil did ever
take good shape,
behold his picture”-
Monticelso
- “confin’d unto a
house of
convertites…a house
of penitent whores”-
Monticelso
- “She’s turned fury”-
Monticelso
- “I’ll cut her into atomies…
where is this whore?”-
Bracciano
- “Your beauty! O, ten thousand
curses on’t. How long have I
beheld the devil in crystal”-
Bracciano
- “Woman to man is either
a God or a wolf”-
Bracciano
- “I was bewitched…what
have I gained from thee but
infamy”- Bracciano
- “Their thoughts are on
hot and lustful sports”-
Lodovico
- “Leave your prating,
for these are but
grammatical laments,
feminine arguments,
and they move me”-
Flamineo
- “Trust a woman? Never,
never”- Flamineo
- “black fury”- Carlo
- Women Characters
- “I did nothing to displease
him”- Vittoria
- “When to my rescue there
arose… a massy arm from that
strong plant”- Vittoria
- “I do protest, if any chaste
denial, if anything but blood
could have allay’d is long suit to
me”- Vittoria
- “Are all these ruins of my
former beauty laid out for a
whore’s triumph?”- Isabella
- “O that I were a man, or that I had
power to execute my apprehended
wishes!”- Isabella
- “To dig that strumpet’s
eyes out; let her die
some twenty months"
- "preserve her flesh like mummia, for
trophies of my just anger”- Isabella
- "I will not have my
accusation clouded
in a strange
tongue. All this
assembly shall
hear what you
charge me with”-
Vittoria
- “you raise a blood
as noble in this
cheek as ever was
your mother’s”-
Vittoria
- "all your strict-combined heads,
which strike against this mine of
diamonds, shall prove but glass
hammers; they shall break”- Vittoria
- Grant I was tempted,
Temptation to lust proves
not the act”- Vittoria
- “So may you blame
some fair and
crystal river for that
some melancholic
distracted man”-
Vittoria
- “Sum up my faults I pray, and you
shall find that beauty and gay
clothes, a merry hear and a good
stomach to feast, are all, all the
poor crimes that you can charge
me with”- Vittoria
- “You must have
patience”- Flamineo
“I must first have
vengeance”- Vittoria
- “A rape! A
rape!”- Vittoria
- O woman’s
poor revenge
which dwells but
in the tongue, I
will not weep”-
Vittoria
- [she throws
herself upon a
bed]
- “O ye dissembling
men”- Vittoria
- “Alas, poor maids get
more lovers than
husbands”- Zanche
- Wealth
- “I will but change my jewel
for your jewel”
- “you shall wear my jewel lower”-
Bracciano
- “I would fain know where lies the
mass of wealth which you have
hoarded for my maintenance that I
may bear my beard above my Lord’s
stirrup.”- Flamineo
- “Because we are poor
shall we be viscious?”-
Cornelia
- “Pray what means have
you to keep me from the
galleys, or the gallows?”-
Flamineo
- "QI would the common’st courtesan in
Rome has been my mother, rather than
thyself. Nature is very pitiful to whores”-
Flamineo
- "Devil" language
- “The devil was in your
dream”-Flamineo
- “Excellent devil! She hath taught him in a
dream to make away his duchess and her
husband” – Flamineo
- “I am resolved were there a second paradise to
lose this devil would betray it” – Monticelso
- “If the devil did ever take
good shape, behold his
picture”- Monticelso
- “She’s turned fury”-
Monticelso
- “Devil Bracciano.
Thou art
damned”-
Lodovico
- “O me” This place is hell!”- Vittoria
- “Thou hast a devil in thee”- Flamineo
- “forsake that which was made for man, the
world, to sink to that was made for devils,
eternal darkness”- Vittoria
- Violent language
- bloody and full
of horror.” –
Gaspero
- “Make Italian cutworks
in their guts if I ever
return”- Lodovico
- preserve her flesh like
mummia, for trophies of my
just anger”- Isabella
- “excellent, then she’s dead”-
Bracciano
- “They are worse, worse than dead bodies,
which are begged at gallows and wrought
upon by surgeons to teach man wherein he is
imperfect." - Monticelso
- “A whore is the true material fire of
hell”- Monticelso
- “Like the wild Irish, I’ll never think
thee dead till I can play football
with thy head”- Francisco
- “I was bewitched…what have
I gained from thee but infamy”-
Bracciano
- • “I had a limb corrupted to an
ulcer, but I have cut it off, and now I’ll
go weeping to Heaven on crutches”-
Vittoria
- "A dead man’s skull beneath the
roots of flowers"- Flamineo
- “Away with them to prison, and to torture”- Giovanni
- Ambition
- “This is my resolve: I would not
live at any man’s entreaty nor
die at any’s bidding”- Flamineo
- “we think caged birds sing, when indeed
they cry”- Flamineo
- “that tree shall long time keep a steady
foot/whose branches spread no wider
than the root”- Marcello dies
- “If I were placed as high as the duke, I should
stick as fast, make as fair a show, and bear out
weather equally”- Flamineo
- “Glories, like glow worms, afar off shine bright
but, looked to near, have neither heat nor
light”- Flamineo
- “Knaves do go great by being
great men’s apes”- Flamineo
- Sin
- “See the curse of children! In life
they keep us frequently in tears; and
in the cold grave leave us in pale
fears”- Cornelia
- “No, this face of mine I’ll arm,
and fortify with lusty wine,
‘gainst shame and blushing”-
Flamineo
- “When you awake from this lascivious
dream, repentance then will follow, like
the sting placed in the adders tale”-
Monticelso
- “O dissemblance”- Bracciano
- “[aside] I do not
put on this feigned
garb of mirth”-
Flamineo
- “forsake that which was made for
man, the world, to sink to that was
made for devils, eternal darkness”-
Vittoria
- “O my greatest sin lay in my
blood; now my blood pays
for’t”- Vittoria
- “Let guilty men remember
their black deeds do lean on
crutches, made of slender
reeds”- Giovanni
- Love and Marriage
- [Zanche brings out a carpet,
spreads it out and lays on it two
fair cushions]
- “you are as welcome to these longing arms as I to
you a virgin”- Isabella
- O your breath”- Bracciano
- “accursed be the priest that sang the
wedding-mass”- Bracciano
- “Do the noblemen in Rome erect
it for their wives, that I am sent to
lodge there”- Vittoria
- “Their thoughts are on hot and lustful sports”-
Lodovico
- women are like to burs; where their
affection throws them, there they’ll
stick”- Flamineo
- “Where’s this good woman? Had I infinite worlds, they were
too little for thee. Must I leave thee?”- Bracciano
- “I am lost for ever”- Vittoria
- “There was a dream
indeed”- Zanche