In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... Lady Macbeth's , although the similarity resides less in actual verbal echoes than in tone and structure of thought . Eleanor , urging her husband to look up and contemplate the " diadem , / Enchas ' d with all the honours of the world ...
... Lady Macbeth's , although the similarity resides less in actual verbal echoes than in tone and structure of thought . Eleanor , urging her husband to look up and contemplate the " diadem , / Enchas ' d with all the honours of the world ...
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... Lady Macbeth ( as well as to the play ) . Sarah Siddons considered Lady Macbeth's reference to the babe an indication of her maternal affections . But Lady Macbeth uses it for shock - value and behind this , in what Shakespeare ...
... Lady Macbeth ( as well as to the play ) . Sarah Siddons considered Lady Macbeth's reference to the babe an indication of her maternal affections . But Lady Macbeth uses it for shock - value and behind this , in what Shakespeare ...
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... Lady Macbeth full of tenderness , sympathy , and altruistic devotion to Macbeth's happiness and realisation of his better self - Lady Macbeth was therefore ultimately ill - treated . This is difficult to accept : 36 37 38 38 See also ...
... Lady Macbeth full of tenderness , sympathy , and altruistic devotion to Macbeth's happiness and realisation of his better self - Lady Macbeth was therefore ultimately ill - treated . This is difficult to accept : 36 37 38 38 See also ...
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