In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 264
... I'le hold him as one sits upon my life / Not one that lies inclos'd within mine armes ; / Hee's now my Iudge , not Husband . She thus seems a political activist rather than a jealous wife ( her countrymen consider her doubly treason ...
... I'le hold him as one sits upon my life / Not one that lies inclos'd within mine armes ; / Hee's now my Iudge , not Husband . She thus seems a political activist rather than a jealous wife ( her countrymen consider her doubly treason ...
Page 272
... I'le starve death . pleased with the murders she has achieved . is unsubtle ; there is little attempt at wit . Black Queen , enemy of true religion and right rule - a Romance figure , exciting but ' flat ' . In dramatic terms , she ...
... I'le starve death . pleased with the murders she has achieved . is unsubtle ; there is little attempt at wit . Black Queen , enemy of true religion and right rule - a Romance figure , exciting but ' flat ' . In dramatic terms , she ...
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