In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... York profits from her destruction of Gloucester . Contemptuous of piety or spiritual strength ( she had , for instance , laughed at Simpcox's blasphemy [ II.1.151 ] ) , she is herself a political force which , acting almost ...
... York profits from her destruction of Gloucester . Contemptuous of piety or spiritual strength ( she had , for instance , laughed at Simpcox's blasphemy [ II.1.151 ] ) , she is herself a political force which , acting almost ...
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... York's commentary , accumulate imagery which emphasises the unnaturalness and the horror of the war which Margaret seems supposed to represent . " Wolf " and " adder " suggest perverse cruelty ; " O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's ...
... York's commentary , accumulate imagery which emphasises the unnaturalness and the horror of the war which Margaret seems supposed to represent . " Wolf " and " adder " suggest perverse cruelty ; " O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's ...
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... York and Lancaster's long jars ( though she finally represents the ' right cause ' , she receives none of the glory , which falls on Richmond's [ Tudor ] shoulders ) . In a world shared by playwright and audience , a woman talented in ...
... York and Lancaster's long jars ( though she finally represents the ' right cause ' , she receives none of the glory , which falls on Richmond's [ Tudor ] shoulders ) . In a world shared by playwright and audience , a woman talented in ...
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