A concise revision pack to assist with the EDUQAS Drama comparison paper between Joe Orton's 'Loot' and Middleton's 'The Revenger's Tragedy' - can also be used for study of either play for other exam boards. Consisting of a quote bank with key collected quotes for each play, categorised under theme...
Duke’s “soft hand” strokes the “rough head of the law”
Duchess thinks her son should be allowed to “walk/ With a bold foot upon the thorny law/
whose prickles should bow under him”:
Lussurioso “deep policy in us makes fools of such/ this slave must die who knows too much”:
Lussurioso “discontent and want/ is the best clay to mould a villain of”
Spurio “flattery and bribes will kill it” referring to the insubstantial law
Antonio “You that would murder him would murder me”
“patrimonies washed a-pieces”
“swelled up with jewels”
Loot
Police are mocked by Hal as a bunch of “idle buffoons”
Truscott himself denies the authority of the police, replying to Fay “innocent until proven
guilty” with the disparaging remark that this is “rubbish”:
Fay “take it up with the society if you have a problem with the rules”:
Truscott “If I ever hear you accuse the police of using violence against a prisoner in custody
again, I’ll take you down to the station and beat the eyes out of your head”
Truscott “we only arrest the innocent at last resort”
Fay: “The British police used to be run by men of integrity”, yet Truscott replies solemnly
“That is a mistake which has been rectified”
2. Religion, morality, corruption in family structures
Revenger’s
Vindice in an apostrophe to Night in the opening scene with a morality-play style procession,
“full sea” of sin, “”sisters who spin”
Vindice “let our hid flames break out, as fire, as lighting/ to blast this villainous dukedom
vexed with sin; wind up your souls to their full heights again”
Spurio lack of morality turns him against his family yearning to get “the vengeance that my
birth was wrapped in”
Duke “Age hot is like a monster to be seen/ My hairs are white and yet my sins are green”
Duke “give me that sin that’s robed in holiness”
Vindice “has not heaven an ear? Is all the lightning wasted?”
Lussurioso “errs in the face of hell”
Duchess acknowledges, “eternal damnation is judgement on sinners”, “unbribed everlasting
law”
Duke knows he has “great sins” and needs “days nay months” to repent
Vindice cries “Dost know thy cue, thou big-voiced crier?/ Dukes’ groans are thunder’s
watchwords”
, Loot
Fay tells Hal to “go to confession. Book an hour with Father Mac”
Fay has a “consistent attitude to religion”
McLeavy is made to look stupid as he tells Fay “you’re so good to me”
McLeavy has greater respect for authority in religion, “Oh what a terrible thing to happen to
a man who’s been kissed by the Pope”
Dennis says atheism is “a luxury”
Fay “The ten commandments – she was a great believer in some of them”
3. Props and stagecraft, women
Revenger’s
Gratiana tells her daughter that “virginity is paradise locked up”
Antonio’s wife body described as a “fair, comely building”
Book says “Melius virtute mori, quam per dedecus vivere”
Vindice “were’t not for gold and women; there would be no damnation”
Vindice “Wives are but made to go to bed and feed” and contrasts this later saying that
women have “hooks to catch at man”
Castiza describes her “virgin honour” as a “crystal tower”
Skull is “dressed up in tires”
“Ladies know Lucifer fell, yet still are proud!”
“it shall bear a part/ E’en in its own revenge’
Loot
Fay “had euthanasia not been against my religion I would have practised it. Instead I decided
to murder her”
Hal does not “flinch upon seeing [his] mother's eyes and teeth handed around like nuts at
Christmas”
Truscott "My wife is a woman. Intelligence doesn't really enter into the matter”
Kneeling by the coffin praying zip undressing
Hal repeatedly combing his hair
Wardrobe presence on stage
4. Black comedy/farce/satire, attitude towards death
Revenger’s
Vindice cries “Dost know thy cue, thou big-voiced crier?/ Dukes’ groans are thunder’s
watchwords”
Vindice as Piato describes the Duke’s maiden as a “country lady” with a “grave look” about
her
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