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THE CHANGELING BY THOMAS MIDDLETON AND WILLIAM ROWLEY – General Questions 2


A.     “Beatrice is a character who is morally ignorant rather than actually evil.”  Discuss.

 

B.      “Jacobean dramatists encourage their audience to be too fascinated by the gruesome”.  How far does your reading of the play support this view?

 

C.     “What compels our interests in The Changeling is its display of the attraction of ugliness.”  How true do you think this is from your reading of the play?

 

D.     Look again at the opening scene of the play.  Draw out at least three ways in which the scene provides the reader with clues about plot development.

 

E.      Consider the following passages from The Changeling: Act 2, Scene 2, lines 127-147; Act 3, Scene 4, lines 151 – 171; Act 5, Scene 3, lines 159-178.  How important are these passages to the play’s development?  You may also want to consider any interesting points of theme, character, language and imagery.

 

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