This week Brittany Chandler, Christopher Weihert, Mitchel Kawash, Claire Curtis-Ward, Samantha Blinn, Parker Denton & Ariana Karp delve into the iconic trial scene of Act III of John Webster’s The White Devil.

We discuss, among other things:

• Three siblings on trial for the same crime
• The overt misogyny and patronization of the court
• The role of the ambassadors in foreign judicial system
• The Pope and the global ecclesiastical power 
• The Elizabethan/Jacobean knack for setting controversial stories in Italy
• Vittoria as a proto-Protestant hero in that she demands that the proceedings are conducted in the language of the people as opposed to Latin
• Why does Bracchiano leave in the middle of the trail scene?
• The timeline for the discovery of Isabella’s death 
• Intention versus action 

Promotional image for the RSC's production of The White Devil