In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... Eleanor Cobham's ambition . 18 Eleanor partly assumes Joan of Arc's role , and the threat inherent in that role , associated with ambition and witchcraft , but though , in opposing England's best interests , and in being involved with ...
... Eleanor Cobham's ambition . 18 Eleanor partly assumes Joan of Arc's role , and the threat inherent in that role , associated with ambition and witchcraft , but though , in opposing England's best interests , and in being involved with ...
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... Eleanor as York's counterpart - both destructively pursue family ambition . Eleanor's expression of ambition ( 1.2 ) is , to some extent , a sketch for Lady Macbeth's , although the similarity resides less in actual verbal echoes than ...
... Eleanor as York's counterpart - both destructively pursue family ambition . Eleanor's expression of ambition ( 1.2 ) is , to some extent , a sketch for Lady Macbeth's , although the similarity resides less in actual verbal echoes than ...
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... Eleanor's scandalous involvement with witchcraft prevented his successfully controlling his enemies by working within political- legal structures . Ironically , Eleanor is politically far shrewder than he , warning him about his enemies ...
... Eleanor's scandalous involvement with witchcraft prevented his successfully controlling his enemies by working within political- legal structures . Ironically , Eleanor is politically far shrewder than he , warning him about his enemies ...
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