In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... Clytemnestra's story mirrors the political threat posed by Mary Stuart , but though the play concerns 10 civil war and tyrannicide , it accords Clytemnestra little political weight . She and Egis thus enter singing frivolously of the ...
... Clytemnestra's story mirrors the political threat posed by Mary Stuart , but though the play concerns 10 civil war and tyrannicide , it accords Clytemnestra little political weight . She and Egis thus enter singing frivolously of the ...
Page 243
... Clytemnestra's antithesis . Clytemnestra was never really treated as an autonomous 12 political figure . In Studley's translation of Seneca's Agamemnon ( 1566 ) she appears torn between fear of Agamemnon and love of Aegisthus , who ...
... Clytemnestra's antithesis . Clytemnestra was never really treated as an autonomous 12 political figure . In Studley's translation of Seneca's Agamemnon ( 1566 ) she appears torn between fear of Agamemnon and love of Aegisthus , who ...
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... Clytemnestra as a political figure . When in The Iron Age II ( 1612 ) the killing of Agamemnon is suggested , Clytemnestra declares , " I'le hold him as one sits upon my life / Not one that lies inclos'd within mine armes ; / Hee's now ...
... Clytemnestra as a political figure . When in The Iron Age II ( 1612 ) the killing of Agamemnon is suggested , Clytemnestra declares , " I'le hold him as one sits upon my life / Not one that lies inclos'd within mine armes ; / Hee's now ...
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