In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... ( King's Men , 1622 ) Fletcher exploits " Amazonian " traits to illustrate women's unnatural cruelty . Rosella's " more than tyranny " forbids the women on the island with her the " sight and use of men . When they discover a group 4 5 ...
... ( King's Men , 1622 ) Fletcher exploits " Amazonian " traits to illustrate women's unnatural cruelty . Rosella's " more than tyranny " forbids the women on the island with her the " sight and use of men . When they discover a group 4 5 ...
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... king who is also their father , it represents the patriarchal fear of a more basic and more threatening anarchy - the kind of anarchy depicted in King Lear . The early play , King Leir ( 1590 ; revived Queen's Sussex's , 1594 ) is ...
... king who is also their father , it represents the patriarchal fear of a more basic and more threatening anarchy - the kind of anarchy depicted in King Lear . The early play , King Leir ( 1590 ; revived Queen's Sussex's , 1594 ) is ...
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... King unadvisedly marries her , she effectively rules , civil war ensues . Finally captured , she is condemned to be staked out in the sun to die , or to be burned- 54 Samuel Schoenbaum , " Hengist King of Kent and sexual preoccupa- tion ...
... King unadvisedly marries her , she effectively rules , civil war ensues . Finally captured , she is condemned to be staked out in the sun to die , or to be burned- 54 Samuel Schoenbaum , " Hengist King of Kent and sexual preoccupa- tion ...
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