In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... Sisters play a part in Macbeth's dangerous feelings of " security , " 45 and the play's atmosphere , as Jane Jack indicates , is steeped in a sense of an attack on Divine Right , of the Latter Days , of unease in Christendom . But ...
... Sisters play a part in Macbeth's dangerous feelings of " security , " 45 and the play's atmosphere , as Jane Jack indicates , is steeped in a sense of an attack on Divine Right , of the Latter Days , of unease in Christendom . But ...
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... Sisters do nothing evil ; nor do they advocate or even prophesy 47 any sinful action Macbeth takes . " Hecate presides where things of day " droop and drowse , " but Macbeth seeks out this ' anti- world ' ; acting against nature he ...
... Sisters do nothing evil ; nor do they advocate or even prophesy 47 any sinful action Macbeth takes . " Hecate presides where things of day " droop and drowse , " but Macbeth seeks out this ' anti- world ' ; acting against nature he ...
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... sisters grow more evil ( also more comic ) and their disapproving comments on Cordella's behaviour enhance the fairy - tale atmosphere . ( Cordella , rejected , trusts in God , falls in love with a " Palmer " [ Sc . vii.693 ] , and is ...
... sisters grow more evil ( also more comic ) and their disapproving comments on Cordella's behaviour enhance the fairy - tale atmosphere . ( Cordella , rejected , trusts in God , falls in love with a " Palmer " [ Sc . vii.693 ] , and is ...
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