Two brothers in this play are described as "plum-trees that grow crooked over standing-pools." A noblein this play tells her executioners to "pull, and pull strongly, for your able strength must pull down heavenupon me." In a scene in this play set near a tomb, an "Echo" makes macabre predictions for theprotagonist's husband. The protagonist first reveals herself to be pregnant when she eats some apricotsoffered to her by a stable-master doubling as a spy. In this play's
Two brothers in this play are described as "plum-trees that grow crooked over standing-pools." A noblein this play tells her executioners to "pull, and pull strongly, for your able strength must pull down heavenupon me." In a scene in this play set near a tomb, an "Echo" makes macabre predictions for theprotagonist's husband. The protagonist first reveals herself to be pregnant when she eats some apricotsoffered to her by a stable-master doubling as a spy. In this play's final scene, Bosola takes revenge on thetitle character's murderous brothers, Ferdinand and the Cardinal, who commanded her not to remarry. For10 points, name this tragedy by John Webster.
Two brothers in this play are described as "plum-trees that grow crooked over standing-pools."
The Duchess of Malfi