In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... Caesar's Revenge ( 1595 ) a Marlovian extravagance circumscribes suggestions of Cleopatra's active evil ( when Antony compares her 63 to Helen , it merely implies his own susceptibility ) . She is a provider of " Aegyptian pleasures ...
... Caesar's Revenge ( 1595 ) a Marlovian extravagance circumscribes suggestions of Cleopatra's active evil ( when Antony compares her 63 to Helen , it merely implies his own susceptibility ) . She is a provider of " Aegyptian pleasures ...
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... Caesar ( whose life consists of the constant activity of political manoeuvre ) we are given a tableau of vice with ... Caesar is criticising , is Lechery run riot and a ' hero ' continually in the tavern and wholly destroyed by his Vices ...
... Caesar ( whose life consists of the constant activity of political manoeuvre ) we are given a tableau of vice with ... Caesar is criticising , is Lechery run riot and a ' hero ' continually in the tavern and wholly destroyed by his Vices ...
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... Caesar wants to conquer . To Antony , after Actium , it seems less important that he has " kiss'd away / Kingdoms " for " Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt " who deserves a whore's fate ( leprosy ) ( III.10.7ff . ) , than that her steps seem ...
... Caesar wants to conquer . To Antony , after Actium , it seems less important that he has " kiss'd away / Kingdoms " for " Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt " who deserves a whore's fate ( leprosy ) ( III.10.7ff . ) , than that her steps seem ...
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