In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 253
... give Cordelia a coronet without her being married to a Duke , while she also has the prospect of 27 royal marriage ... gives her a virtuous husband she ' needs ' to dispose of . Goneril acts according to situations , not established ...
... give Cordelia a coronet without her being married to a Duke , while she also has the prospect of 27 royal marriage ... gives her a virtuous husband she ' needs ' to dispose of . Goneril acts according to situations , not established ...
Page 319
... 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 enslaved by Omphale , and this aspect of Antony's union with Cleopatra ...
... 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 enslaved by Omphale , and this aspect of Antony's union with Cleopatra ...
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... give Cleopatra an Act to herself . But it seems unnecessary to look for reasons for the structure of Antony and Cleopatra beyond the play itself . Act Five is necessary to our perception of the protagonists and their political relation ...
... give Cleopatra an Act to herself . But it seems unnecessary to look for reasons for the structure of Antony and Cleopatra beyond the play itself . Act Five is necessary to our perception of the protagonists and their political relation ...
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