Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of Womankind, 1540 to 1620Impressively examines the relation sixteenth-century controversies about the nature of women have to literature and life. |
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... Death of ... Dame Helen Branch , compares Dame Helen with Ruth , Sara , and Judith ; W. Har , in Epicedivm , A Funerall Song , vpon the vertuous life , and godly death , of . . . Lady Helen Branch , compares her with Lucrece , Helen of ...
... Death of ... Dame Helen Branch , compares Dame Helen with Ruth , Sara , and Judith ; W. Har , in Epicedivm , A Funerall Song , vpon the vertuous life , and godly death , of . . . Lady Helen Branch , compares her with Lucrece , Helen of ...
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... death over a woman . Leontes and Polixenes in The Winter's Tale have been close friends since childhood ; then Leontes sus- pects Polixenes of sleeping with his wife . In The Fatal Dowry , Romont's friendship with Charolais is disrupted ...
... death over a woman . Leontes and Polixenes in The Winter's Tale have been close friends since childhood ; then Leontes sus- pects Polixenes of sleeping with his wife . In The Fatal Dowry , Romont's friendship with Charolais is disrupted ...
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... death As Caesar did ? No , no : pinch him , pricke him . ( V.ii. 156-164 ) Perhaps the playwright allowed himself this one stereotype because it wasn't really a stereotype - not adopted from stale literary models but drawn from the life ...
... death As Caesar did ? No , no : pinch him , pricke him . ( V.ii. 156-164 ) Perhaps the playwright allowed himself this one stereotype because it wasn't really a stereotype - not adopted from stale literary models but drawn from the life ...
Contents
Exordium | 1 |
THE FORMAL CONTROVERSY | 11 |
The Early Tudor Controversy | 18 |
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