{"id":389,"date":"2017-04-18T22:51:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T02:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=389"},"modified":"2017-04-18T22:51:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T02:51:47","slug":"re-reply-to-raisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/incest-and-jacobean-tragedy\/re-reply-to-raisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Reply to Raisa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Raisa!<\/p>\n<p>I was also struck by some moments that struck me as particularly Donnean. I noticed specifically the scene in which the Duchess proposes to Antonio. She claims that he has &#8220;left me heartless; mine is in your bosom; \/ I hope twill multiply love there&#8221; (1.3.152-3). I thought that this moment felt like Donne, and to some extent Philips, in placing two &#8220;hearts,&#8221; or souls, together in order to make something new and more grand, along with taking a common refrain (you have my heart) making it extreme \u00a0(I no longer have a heart). Further, the Duchess makes comments that their love can ignore a gross world: &#8220;Do not think of them. \/ All discord without this circumference \/ Is only to be pitied, and not feared&#8221; (1.3.170-2). Their love, like Donne&#8217;s, elevates them above the world outside of their domesticity. We know that this is a tragic play, I wonder how to take this language coming from a seemingly empowered woman, or if the play&#8217;s tragedy is a larger critique of Donnean themes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Raisa! I was also struck by some moments that struck me as particularly Donnean. I noticed specifically the scene in which the Duchess proposes to Antonio. She claims that he has &#8220;left me heartless; mine is in your bosom; \/ I hope twill multiply love there&#8221; (1.3.152-3). I thought that this moment felt like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incest-and-jacobean-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}