ANGELO

Question 1

Johnson

Answer 1

every reader feels some indignation when angelo is spared

Question 2

Watts

Answer 2

‘Her moral fervour has become for him a sexual challenge’

Question 3

2004 Theatre de Complicite

Answer 3

Centered on Angelo’s psychological journey which ended in his breakdown, curled up in a chair in a foetal position when the Duke revealed his secrets

Question 4

Empson

Answer 4

Empson, reading “sense” as both rationality and sensuality, said that “the real irony … is that her coldness, even her rationality, is what has excited him.”

Question 5

Reeves

Answer 5

‘Angelo is not a sexual opportunist. The feelings of sexual desire are new to him and they are frightening’

Question 6

Pater

Answer 6

Questions if Angelo is ‘psychologically possible’

Question 7

Shegel

Answer 7

Allowing Angelo to live is a triumph of mercy