In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... effective . In other plays , however , the use of the conventions is uninventive and dramatically unsatisfying . In The Spanish Gypsie ( Lady Elizabeth's , 1623 ) romance trivialises the potentially tragic . Clara is raped , but her ...
... effective . In other plays , however , the use of the conventions is uninventive and dramatically unsatisfying . In The Spanish Gypsie ( Lady Elizabeth's , 1623 ) romance trivialises the potentially tragic . Clara is raped , but her ...
Page 318
... effective for being presented in verbal rather than visual terms . From the Roman viewpoint , that Antony is " not more man- like / Than Cleopatra ; nor the queen of Ptolemy / More womanly than he " ( 1.4.5-7 ) shames Cleopatra and ...
... effective for being presented in verbal rather than visual terms . From the Roman viewpoint , that Antony is " not more man- like / Than Cleopatra ; nor the queen of Ptolemy / More womanly than he " ( 1.4.5-7 ) shames Cleopatra and ...
Page 319
... effective partly because it is a deliberate , neatly placed over - emphasis proper to Antonius Furens . And her language perfectly characterises a queen who is also both lover 79 Further to this view of Shakespeare's use of the Hercules ...
... effective partly because it is a deliberate , neatly placed over - emphasis proper to Antonius Furens . And her language perfectly characterises a queen who is also both lover 79 Further to this view of Shakespeare's use of the Hercules ...
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