Brittany Chandler, Mitchel Kawash, Samantha Blinn, Parker Denton, and Ariana Karp discuss Act I of The White Devil. 

Topics of discussion include:

• Carriage humor
• Social Darwinism
• Vittoria and Bracciano’s sexuality within the language
• Flamineo’s power and agency coming from ‘playing’ the man, rejecting traditional female avenues of power
• Why do Jacobean brothers pimp out their sisters?
• Capitalism and Jacobean personal relationships
• Cuckolded husbands and their portrayal in Jacobean drama and comedy
• Disconnect between how Vittoria is described and how she appears
• Farcical elements of the second scene
• Flamineo, chaos and motivation
• Webster and Religion

Poster for National Theatre Production