“What would it pleasure me to have my throat cut
With diamonds? Or to be smothered
With cassia? Or to be shot to death with pearls?
I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits, and ’tis found
They go on such strange geometrical hinges,
You may open them both ways.”
—
The Duchess of Malfi. Act IV, scene II.
Just 21 days until I get to see the ENO/Punchdrunk production of John Webster’s celebrated seventeenth-century tragedy of love, incest and murder. God knows how I’ll hide from spoilers and reviews after the premiere on 19 July.
