The Duchess and Antonio have two more children.įerdinand returns from Rome and hides in his sister’s bedroom. He tells her brothers, who are furious with her (they don't know she is married). Bosola finds the horoscope – proof that the Duchess had a child. His father, Antonio, writes his newborn a horoscope, but then loses it. She eats them and immediately becomes ill. He hatches a plan to present her with apricots (believed to induce labour). Nine months later, Bosola suspects the Duchess is pregnant. They confess their love for each other, she proposes and they are married in secret. Once they’ve gone, the Duchess meets Antonio. But they don’t trust their sister and hire a servant, Bosola, to spy on her. Her brothers, Ferdinand and the Cardinal tell her not to remarry (she was recently widowed). The Duchess falls in love with her steward, Antonio. A summary of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi – a gory tale of revenge and dark humour.
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