In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... friend 8 of Horatio's and Belimperia's lover ) and Hieronimo's revenge , which is Kyd's major interest . Belimperia's affair with Andrea is left ambiguous , both factually and morally ; and it is unclear whether she should be condemned ...
... friend 8 of Horatio's and Belimperia's lover ) and Hieronimo's revenge , which is Kyd's major interest . Belimperia's affair with Andrea is left ambiguous , both factually and morally ; and it is unclear whether she should be condemned ...
Page 258
... friends , " " golden opinions . " ) Her relation to Macbeth depends upon specific action rather than on Christian wifehood : he becomes " Husband " because of the murder . Reading of " greatness " she grasps it imaginatively and uses ...
... friends , " " golden opinions . " ) Her relation to Macbeth depends upon specific action rather than on Christian wifehood : he becomes " Husband " because of the murder . Reading of " greatness " she grasps it imaginatively and uses ...
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... friends at stake requir'd I should do so in honour , ( III.2.62-64 ) " honour , " though at best a dubious quality , is nevertheless some- thing which , in the Rome Shakespeare has created , helps sustain social order . As long as ...
... friends at stake requir'd I should do so in honour , ( III.2.62-64 ) " honour , " though at best a dubious quality , is nevertheless some- thing which , in the Rome Shakespeare has created , helps sustain social order . As long as ...
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