1) Describe the theatre space and use as a set, along with any props, music, etc. 2) What does the staging and theatre space add to this production? 3) What specific choices do the actors/director/design team make in using this specific space, and how effective are they? 4) How do these choices illuminate/help tell the story of the play The Duchess of Malfi? 5) How is this play different in tackling these themes (discuss at least 3 of these in your response): revenge, corrupt power, deception, murder and subsequent guilty conscience (or lack of guilty conscience), superstition and seeing of ghosts, repentance for wrong-doing and desire for forgiveness, and portrayal of madness, women controlled by men/relatives, the despair of life, comments on how life is like a play/the world like a stage, compared to how they're played in Shakespeare's Hamlet? How does the style of language compare to that of Hamlet?
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