ENGL 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Matteo Bandello, Ariodant, Protestantism
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The man asks his current lover dalinda to arrange a marriage with. Dalinda"s story to the knight is what shakespeare takes. She is guilty and feels bad about it. She pretends to be another woman to be with a man to get the mans woman think she"s cheating. The whole story is told in hindsight from dalinda"s perspective-she feels horrible. She fell in love with the wrong guy and was so in love she was willing to do anything for him. Dalinda falls for a visiting knight named ariodant. Polynesso wants dalinda to dress up like genevra during sex so he can at least feel like he made something. He wants to stage a scene that ariodant will see so that he will think genevra and polynesso are having sex.