In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... helps lovers ( this is what makes her harmless ) sells potions to ladies , and flees when she thinks she actually has conjured a spirit . In Alphonsus , King of Aragon ( 1587 ) Medea uses her supernatural knowledge to help her country ...
... helps lovers ( this is what makes her harmless ) sells potions to ladies , and flees when she thinks she actually has conjured a spirit . In Alphonsus , King of Aragon ( 1587 ) Medea uses her supernatural knowledge to help her country ...
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... helps the English to fight the brave Welsh by conjuring a man - eating serpent ; but King Caradoc defeats this Celtic dragon with the help of magic herbs . The witch is subjected , spectacularly , to the accepted form of contemporary ...
... helps the English to fight the brave Welsh by conjuring a man - eating serpent ; but King Caradoc defeats this Celtic dragon with the help of magic herbs . The witch is subjected , spectacularly , to the accepted form of contemporary ...
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... helps sustain social order . As long as Coriolanus acts within that order Volumnia is wholly committed to him and even when he has been banished she supports him because he has struck blows " for Rome's good " ( IV.2.22 ) . However ...
... helps sustain social order . As long as Coriolanus acts within that order Volumnia is wholly committed to him and even when he has been banished she supports him because he has struck blows " for Rome's good " ( IV.2.22 ) . However ...
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