In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... killed when he attempts to kill Lavall . Lavall , dying , is unable to pray and , urged by her virtuous maid , Gabriella strikes the final blow . She displays Lavall's body to the Duke and heroically kills herself . Retaining an ...
... killed when he attempts to kill Lavall . Lavall , dying , is unable to pray and , urged by her virtuous maid , Gabriella strikes the final blow . She displays Lavall's body to the Duke and heroically kills herself . Retaining an ...
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... kills him while he is praying because she fears betrayal . Echoes of the Cupid - Psyche myth in her speeches seem to ... kill 29 30 Fletcher ( and others ) , Rollo , Duke of Normandy , ed . Waller , Vol . IV , IV.3.p.30 . " T.D. , " The ...
... kills him while he is praying because she fears betrayal . Echoes of the Cupid - Psyche myth in her speeches seem to ... kill 29 30 Fletcher ( and others ) , Rollo , Duke of Normandy , ed . Waller , Vol . IV , IV.3.p.30 . " T.D. , " The ...
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... kill ) strangles her with her own hair , she assumes a Senecan heroism appropriate to the greatness of her prototype , Medea : ... thou wert not made to kill , Nor was the Diadame of her Ponticke Queene Made as a fatall instrument of ...
... kill ) strangles her with her own hair , she assumes a Senecan heroism appropriate to the greatness of her prototype , Medea : ... thou wert not made to kill , Nor was the Diadame of her Ponticke Queene Made as a fatall instrument of ...
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