What should we make of the dramatic difference between Grimaldi's fate after he murders Bergetto and Hippolita's after she attempts to revenge herself on Soranzo? In Hippolita's case, the gathered crowd responds "Wonderful justice" (4.1.87) as she dies -- while Donado is left to demand, in the wake of the Cardinal's exit with an unpunished Grimaldi, "Is this a churchman's voice? Dwells justice here?" (3.9.63). What factors influence this disparity? How does it fit into the larger rhetoric of/discussion about "justice" within the play?

Beatrice initially takes De Flores to task for transgressing boundaries of social status when he demands her virginity in payment for the murder of Alonzo. De Flores, however, quickly fires back, "fly not to your birth, but settle you / In what the act has made you" (3.4.134-135). How is this related to and different from the intersections of social class, moral responsibility, and gender presented in previous plays? (As, for example, The White Devil.) Do De Flores' origins as contrasted to his current social status (he claims to have been "tumbled into th'world a gentleman") change the reading?