In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... ambiguity remains , though , because Perseda acts like an Amazon to defend Rhodes and then kills Soliman by kissing him with " poisoned " lips . ( In the source , she is killed by a volley of shot , a much more soldierly death . ) As ...
... ambiguity remains , though , because Perseda acts like an Amazon to defend Rhodes and then kills Soliman by kissing him with " poisoned " lips . ( In the source , she is killed by a volley of shot , a much more soldierly death . ) As ...
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... ambiguity , other dramatists , in their casual references to Helen , use her image as an immediate ' confirmation ' for a variety of arguments . To Shakespeare she is fair , but also " rules " her husband , making him " effeminate ...
... ambiguity , other dramatists , in their casual references to Helen , use her image as an immediate ' confirmation ' for a variety of arguments . To Shakespeare she is fair , but also " rules " her husband , making him " effeminate ...
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... ambiguity of the Helen - image as well as anyone : Greece sees unmoved , God's daughter , born of love , the beauty of the cool feet and slenderest knees , could love indeed the maid , only if she were laid , white ash amid funereal ...
... ambiguity of the Helen - image as well as anyone : Greece sees unmoved , God's daughter , born of love , the beauty of the cool feet and slenderest knees , could love indeed the maid , only if she were laid , white ash amid funereal ...
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