In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 228
... action against usurpation and personal crime ; the court is purged , she is called a " saint . " Her revenge is evidently the only valid alternative to Lucina's romantic stoicism . In Rollo , Duke of Normandy ( King's Men , 1619 ) ...
... action against usurpation and personal crime ; the court is purged , she is called a " saint . " Her revenge is evidently the only valid alternative to Lucina's romantic stoicism . In Rollo , Duke of Normandy ( King's Men , 1619 ) ...
Page 248
... action , but is never quite reduced to one static symbol . 20 As an activator of political discord , she is partly identified by association with the image of Helen : Suffolk first went to get her " as did the youthful Paris once to ...
... action , but is never quite reduced to one static symbol . 20 As an activator of political discord , she is partly identified by association with the image of Helen : Suffolk first went to get her " as did the youthful Paris once to ...
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... actions - thus she loses Suffolk , and York profits from her destruction of Gloucester . Contemptuous of piety or ... action and shrewishness - all images of female disorder— seem to culminate in the paper crown scene , arguably the ...
... actions - thus she loses Suffolk , and York profits from her destruction of Gloucester . Contemptuous of piety or ... action and shrewishness - all images of female disorder— seem to culminate in the paper crown scene , arguably the ...
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