On the day of their wedding, Bracciano competes in a tournament. Ce professionnel est également référencé dans l'activité suivante Leçons de musique, de chant à Valence Tous les professionnels de la ville de Valence. It is inhabited by people, driven like animals, and perhaps like men, only by their instincts, but more blindly and more ruinously." When Elizabeth died without an heir, English men were relieved to be able to find a monarch of the appropriate gender and religion in James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England. Indeed, he tells his mother his history of selling himself: first at the university where for seven years he "heel[ed] his tutor's stockings"; then graduating through connivance with an older man; until finally arriving at Bracciano's service, where he has become "more lecherous by far / but not a suit richer." New historical studies and feminist critique have opened a variety of interpretations of Webster's texts. Zanche is Vittoria's Moorish maid. For example, when Flamineo arranges the tryst between Bracciano and Vittoria he says, "Women are like / curst dogs: civility keeps them tied all daytime, but they / are let loose at midnight." Recrutement | He tells both Bracciano and Flamineo that it has been a very long time since he has been in bed with his wife. 14, No. Bogard, Travis, "An Interpretation of The White Devil," in Shakespeare's Contemporaries, edited by Max Bluestone and Norman Rabkin, Prentice-Hall, 1970, p. 272; originally published in The Tragic Satire of John Webster, University of California Press, 1955, pp. Further, none of the characters (with the exception of Cornelia and Isabella) acts in anything but their own interest. He is motivated by lust, is cruel to his wife and his lover, and is murderous to those who cross him. The White Devil, tragedy in five acts by John Webster, performed and published as The White Divel in 1612. dependent on Bracciano for money, since his father left them penniless. Vittoria tells Bracciano of a dream in which she sees the graves of her husband and his wife. Cave provides a brief and accessible analysis of twentieth-century performances of both plays. Moreover, in his willingness to sell himself, he, like Fortune, is a prostitute, and by extension, gendered female. ), sa musique ne ramollit pas. In Mysterium Conjunctionis Carl Jung devotes ten pages to the explication of the symbolism of the dog. They betray each other—even members of their own family—without a second's thought. Dramatists such as Webster had specific reasons for choosing to incorporate a dumb show in the play rather than present the action directly. Le diable blanc avec qui tu as voyagé. Cornelia is mother to Vittoria, Flamineo, and Marcello. ." To feed their greed for wealth and power. 1600s: Women have few rights under the law in England. Is the question of religion ever adequately resolved? Dympna Callaghan, for example, examines the way the white Vittoria and the black Zanche mirror each other. Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. Thus, this is a marriage in appearance only. The White Devil Resources Websites. ." Possessing the much valued Eliotian quality of "the discipline of directed action," this dog will prove a "Friend to man" when with "his nails" he digs up the buried corpse, thus compelling the fertility rite which will bring both thunder and life-restoring rain. Although she fares well in this scene, she is unable to find justice in the courts. Flamineo reveals in this speech his disregard for women as well as his belief that they are all no better than "dogs," fulfilling their sexual desires with whomever crosses their paths. 97–100. Cornelia also enters and overhears the arrangements. Webster blamed both his audience and the ambience of the Red Bull Theatre for the play's failure, although he did praise the acting of Richard Perkins. The assumptions a culture makes about women can sometimes be uncovered by examining the cultural artifacts. ." They lie and scheme and kill. In addition, women are more prone to the demands of their bodies. Late in the play he appears in disguise as Mulinassar, a Moor in service to Bracciano. Ironically, although it is Flamineo, acting as pimp, who sells his sister, it is Vittoria herself who goes to trial and is punished for adultery. Si vous aimez ce film, vous pourriez aimer ... Meurtres à la Pointe du Raz sur France 3 : que pense la presse du téléfilm avec Evelyne Bouix et David Kammenos ? In the context of the play, Cornelia's plaintive desire for the burial of her son's body exceeds a simple wish for propriety. Pour écrire un commentaire, identifiez-vous. Consequently, when Bracciano has Isabella murdered and runs off with Vittoria, Francisco undertakes revenge. In order to win his favor, she reveals the details of the murders of Isabella and Camillo. Renaissance audiences would have recognized in this action a complete rejection of order and an embrace of chaos. Webster seems to be saying that these instincts are indeed primal, and without some sort of social contract to keep them in check, the result will be a world in which no one is safe. Travis Bogard, in an essay that appears in Shakespeare's Contemporaries, identifies three prominent threads that run throughout: "first, the rotten prodigality of court life; second, the evils of a social system in which sycophants flatter a lord for an uncertain living; third, the treachery of a prince's capricious 'justice."' The men meet with Bracciano and confront him with his adultery. accurate as far as they go. In its antithetical posture, this dog, as scavenger, is undistilled appetitive force. In addition to the MLA, Chicago, and APA styles, your school, university, publication, or institution may have its own requirements for citations. He decides that he, Vittoria, and Zanche should all die. Likewise, although James was a great patron of the theatre of his day, he enforced strict censorship over the content of the plays that could be presented. His most important scenes in the play happen late; he insults Zanche and Flamineo's purported engagement to her. Thus the theatricality of the dumb show itself mirrors the thematic tension between appearances and reality in the play. He is unable to convict her of either murder, but he does punish her for committing adultery by sentencing her to a house for penitent prostitutes. It is from his name that the term Machiavellian is derived. : Consequently, he undertakes the revenge for her death, acting on behalf of Francisco and Monticelso. 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