In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... appears to have encouraged the creation of rather more complex female characters . The character of the revenger had been , since the translations of Seneca , a complex one , and we might see it as one more instance of the maturing of ...
... appears to have encouraged the creation of rather more complex female characters . The character of the revenger had been , since the translations of Seneca , a complex one , and we might see it as one more instance of the maturing of ...
Page 219
... appears in Lyly's Endymion The actions of Tellus , a vengeful woman as well as ( 1588 ) . ' Earth ' , 17 are shown in the worst possible light : her reaction to being deserted by Endymion " What revenge may be deuised so full of shame ...
... appears in Lyly's Endymion The actions of Tellus , a vengeful woman as well as ( 1588 ) . ' Earth ' , 17 are shown in the worst possible light : her reaction to being deserted by Endymion " What revenge may be deuised so full of shame ...
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... appears torn between fear of Agamemnon and love of Aegisthus , who encourages her hatred of Agamemnon and on whom minimal political interest focuses . In Cassandra's relation of the murder , " semi - vir " is translated as " mankynd ...
... appears torn between fear of Agamemnon and love of Aegisthus , who encourages her hatred of Agamemnon and on whom minimal political interest focuses . In Cassandra's relation of the murder , " semi - vir " is translated as " mankynd ...
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