In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... comic balance . Leonora exposes Romelio ( though he has in fact failed to kill anyone ) , and he is later forced to marry the woman he had earlier wronged and who had not sought revenge . ( This , incidentally , breaks up a nicely ...
... comic balance . Leonora exposes Romelio ( though he has in fact failed to kill anyone ) , and he is later forced to marry the woman he had earlier wronged and who had not sought revenge . ( This , incidentally , breaks up a nicely ...
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... comic , while he gives to Rome's spokesmen the moralising attitude to 68 Antony's wasting the " lamps of night in revel " ( 1.4.5 ) . Cleopatra's own sense of humour differentiates her from other Renaissance Cleopatras ; her elusive ...
... comic , while he gives to Rome's spokesmen the moralising attitude to 68 Antony's wasting the " lamps of night in revel " ( 1.4.5 ) . Cleopatra's own sense of humour differentiates her from other Renaissance Cleopatras ; her elusive ...
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... comic turn , a strumpet's fool . Plutarch observes that " Cleopatra was to give Fulvia thankes for that she had taught Antonius ... obedience to women " ( p . 11 ) . But according to Ovid and Lucian , Hercules himself felt no shame when ...
... comic turn , a strumpet's fool . Plutarch observes that " Cleopatra was to give Fulvia thankes for that she had taught Antonius ... obedience to women " ( p . 11 ) . But according to Ovid and Lucian , Hercules himself felt no shame when ...
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