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This is indeed a choice ! A more characteristic election —for both sides of the question—could not well have been made . The passion of the work tunas on this point . The Duchess , who is a widow , falls in love with and marries Antonio , her steward . To be a steward or butler is the circumstance of his life ; he is not a man of low nature ; hence her justification . And if he were of low nature , she has her own free will ? A real tragedy is the antithesis of convention . Listen to the termination of one of their noble love scenes : —
4 < Ant . Were there nor heaven nor hell , I should be honest . 1 have long serVd virtue And ne ' er ta ' en wages of her . Duck , Now she pay & it . — The misery of us . that are born great ! We are foic'd to woo , because none dare \ roo us ; And as a tyrant doubles with his words
-And feammy equivocates , so we Are forc'd to express our violent passions In riddles and iti dreams , and leave the path Of simple virtue , which was never made To seem the thing it is not . Go , go , brag You have left me heartless ; mine is in your bosom—I hope t ' wiil multiply love there : —you do tremble ! — Make not your heart so dead a piece of rleslr
To fear more than to love me ; Sir , be confident . —» What is it that distracts you ?—this is flesh ami blood , Sir , 'Tis not the figure cut in alabaster Kneels at my husband ' s tomb . Awake—awake , man . I do here put off all vain ceremony , And only do appear to you a young widow ; 1 use but half a blush in ' t .
Ant * Truth speak for me ; I will remain the constant sanctuary Of your good name . Fernando , the brother of the Duchess , is outrageous on conventional principles of pride and selfishness , at this marriage , and his passion carries him beyond convention in the demoniac
vengeance with which lie visits her for the worldly degradation of his family and self-love . To accomplish bin purpose he hires the services of Bosola—an intellectual , but heartless villain—and harrows up the imagination and passions of the Duchess by devices not much exceeding many facts known in history ; particularly that of Italy , though bearing the sin of some originality of conception ; and then causes her to be
strangled . After the wretched , but noble-spirited martyr has been shown the bodies of her husband and children , finely executed in Max , which she very naturally , under all circumstances ,
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The London Review v . The British Drama . * $ ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1836, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2656/page/45/
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