Status Updates From The Duchess of Malfi

I have just begun to understand what is happening

Battling the ντεπρέσα: lovely eve putting critics into dialogue; thought I'd read [TW], but Swinburne disabused me; viz., btw,: "compressed rhetoric | heroic scorn | scornful intensity | compressed contempt | concentration of utterance" &c.

W: "He speaks w/ others' tongues, and hears men's suites / with others' ears"
"There's no more credit to be given to th'face / than to a sick man's urine" & ff. (out of chars.)