ACT II

We move on to Act II of The White Devil with Director Brittany Chandler, and participants Christopher Weihart, Mitchel Kawash, Claire Curtis-Ward, Samantha Blinn, Parker Denton & Ariana Karp.

We spend the first couple of minutes trying to make sense of the complicated family relationships between all the the new characters that are introduced at the top of Act 2. We then progress to other topics:

• The various pros and cons of powdered unicorn horn
• Political power dynamics of the aristocracy Bracciano vs Francisco and Montecelso
• Shared figurative language (Similes and Metaphors) 
• Flamineo’s reckless cynicism
• Jacobean verse vs prose
• Rapid escalation of aggression between Bracciano and Francisco broken only by Giovanni’s entrance
• Isabella as a parallel/double to Vittoria
• Specificity of complicated Jacobean murders
• Elizabethan/Jacobean dumb shows 
• Webster and stage directions