![]() ![]() When this came up a couple of weeks ago at tablework, I didn’t know too much about The Malcontent on an academic level. Nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so. To me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me. Infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express andĪdmirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how likeĪ god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals-and yet, What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how You preservers of mankind, life-blood of society, who would live, nay who can live without you? O paradise, how majestical is your austerer presence! How imperiously chaste is your more modest face! But O how full of ravishing attraction is your pretty, petulant, languishing, lasciviously-composed countenance, these amorous smiles, those soul warming sparkling glances! In body, how delicate, in soul how witty, in discourse how pregnant, in life how wary, in favours how judicious, in day how sociable, in night how - O, pleasure unutterable! He begins his journey in this play by telling the audience exactly how empowering it truly is to not only be in favor with the duke, but to be sleeping with the duchess behind his back in fact, he goes on at great length in praise of beautiful women in general (nobility or lack thereof aside): ![]() Take, for example, the scheming and scandalous villain of the piece, Mendoza (played rather deliciously by Adrian LaTourelle and Ramon de Ocampo). Marston (the playwright of The Malcontent ) wasn’t above playful (or perhaps malicious) acts of parody when the opportunity presented itself. Malevole, The Malcontent, Act IV Scene 4 ![]() There’s more of them than can well live already.” Antaeus Tweets Tweets by antaeustheater. ![]()
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