In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... death relegates Belimperia to a secondary place , while the pathos of her situation serves to ' cleanse ' revenge of any associations with illicit love . Though she continues to defy her family ( as she supposedly had in loving Andrea ) ...
... death relegates Belimperia to a secondary place , while the pathos of her situation serves to ' cleanse ' revenge of any associations with illicit love . Though she continues to defy her family ( as she supposedly had in loving Andrea ) ...
Page 233
... deaths , to suggest that the younger sister deserves more sympathy : she , with ' Elizabethan ' heroics , displays her brother's body , vaunts over her success in killing her sister , and stabs herself— bloody , defiant ... death 233.
... deaths , to suggest that the younger sister deserves more sympathy : she , with ' Elizabethan ' heroics , displays her brother's body , vaunts over her success in killing her sister , and stabs herself— bloody , defiant ... death 233.
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... death ' as in life . It is a sexual vitality which , combined with Cleopatra's ' shrew- ishness ' , makes the moment of Antony's dying almost a comic moment : Antony . ... Now my spirit is going , I can no more . Cleopatra . Noblest of ...
... death ' as in life . It is a sexual vitality which , combined with Cleopatra's ' shrew- ishness ' , makes the moment of Antony's dying almost a comic moment : Antony . ... Now my spirit is going , I can no more . Cleopatra . Noblest of ...
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