How we cite our quotes:
Quote #7
VINDICE
[…] oh, I'm mad to lose such a sweet opportunity.(5.1.21)
Hmm… Vindice seems awfully excited about killing Lussurioso. Who's in charge here, Vindice or his thirst for revenge?
Quote #8
ANTONIO
My good? Away with 'em. Such an old man as he,
You that would murder him would murder me.(5.3.135-136)
One of the closing ironies of the play is that Antonio executes Vindice and Hippolito. Are they experiencing a kind of vengeance for being revengers? Antonio doesn't have a grudge against them, but he does seem to see them differently than they see themselves: as violent schemers, not morally guided avengers.
Quote #9
VINDICE
Brother, place the torch here, that his affrighted eyeballs
May start into those hollows. Duke, dost know
Yon dreadful vizard? View it well, 'tis the skull
Of Gloriana whom thou poisonedst last.DUKE
Oh, 't'as poisoned me.(3.5.151-155)
The Duke wouldn't have gotten poisoned if he hadn't kissed the skull of the woman he poisoned. Oh yes, irony will get you every time in this play.