In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 184
... husband and nation . There are some implications that the women's commonwealth is a viable alternative to man - made international warfare . the moment her husband , who arrives to save the castaways , reveals himself , Rosella becomes ...
... husband and nation . There are some implications that the women's commonwealth is a viable alternative to man - made international warfare . the moment her husband , who arrives to save the castaways , reveals himself , Rosella becomes ...
Page 226
... husband's prior association with Jacinta , seeks her husband's death ( IV . pp . 110-112 ) . When the brother - in - law exposes her , she renounces him , and pursues the deaths of Jacinta and the man with whom Jacinta lives in a kind ...
... husband's prior association with Jacinta , seeks her husband's death ( IV . pp . 110-112 ) . When the brother - in - law exposes her , she renounces him , and pursues the deaths of Jacinta and the man with whom Jacinta lives in a kind ...
Page 265
... husband , she is conscious of Roman honour - and is glad Caractacus was not " basely taken . " Her pride is so overweening as she seeks to " assume " 47 Roman deity that she is dramatically rather exciting , and may deliberately ...
... husband , she is conscious of Roman honour - and is glad Caractacus was not " basely taken . " Her pride is so overweening as she seeks to " assume " 47 Roman deity that she is dramatically rather exciting , and may deliberately ...
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