In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 225
... father on the condition he marry her . Virolet divorces Juliana , but his attempt to honour both ' marriages ' , by refusing to consummate his marriage to Martia , incurs Martia's hate . She joins with the tyrant against her own father ...
... father on the condition he marry her . Virolet divorces Juliana , but his attempt to honour both ' marriages ' , by refusing to consummate his marriage to Martia , incurs Martia's hate . She joins with the tyrant against her own father ...
Page 257
... father helps more emphatically condemn her for her compliance in killing an ultimate father - figure . The " babe " image seems , of course , central to the way we see Lady Macbeth ( as well as to the play ) . Sarah Siddons considered ...
... father helps more emphatically condemn her for her compliance in killing an ultimate father - figure . The " babe " image seems , of course , central to the way we see Lady Macbeth ( as well as to the play ) . Sarah Siddons considered ...
Page 263
... father , 44 Servus , and will be " no wife of Tarquins if not King " ; ' she commits unfilial atrocities , driving her chariot over Servus ' " block " to prove her supremacy ( recalling and acting out the ambitious fantasies of ...
... father , 44 Servus , and will be " no wife of Tarquins if not King " ; ' she commits unfilial atrocities , driving her chariot over Servus ' " block " to prove her supremacy ( recalling and acting out the ambitious fantasies of ...
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