In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... heaven , / [ She ] never knew of this horrid murder . " Hamlet urges , 11 Forbear the adulterous bed tonight , ... In time it may be you will loathe him quite . And mother , but assist me in revenge , And in his death your infamy shall ...
... heaven , / [ She ] never knew of this horrid murder . " Hamlet urges , 11 Forbear the adulterous bed tonight , ... In time it may be you will loathe him quite . And mother , but assist me in revenge , And in his death your infamy shall ...
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... heaven might have a hand in it . 29 Usurpation and tyranny in The Bloody Banquet ( 1619 ) initiate a complicated pattern of revenge , but the Old Queen , ousted by 30 the Tyrant , eschews vengeance . The Tyrant's excessive jealousy of ...
... heaven might have a hand in it . 29 Usurpation and tyranny in The Bloody Banquet ( 1619 ) initiate a complicated pattern of revenge , but the Old Queen , ousted by 30 the Tyrant , eschews vengeance . The Tyrant's excessive jealousy of ...
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... heaven forbid , men's roles ) the whole complexion of the drama must needs change , and Prynne , not trusting any of the " lascivious rattlepated gadding females " in the audience , may have perceived this . 8 Dusinberre , Nature of ...
... heaven forbid , men's roles ) the whole complexion of the drama must needs change , and Prynne , not trusting any of the " lascivious rattlepated gadding females " in the audience , may have perceived this . 8 Dusinberre , Nature of ...
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