In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... lover kills her lover , but this is not developed . Later , when Lucina gains , through the actions of the wicked Muslim , Soliman , an opportunity to take revenge , the plot is not very clearly worked out , and Perseda's killing of ...
... lover kills her lover , but this is not developed . Later , when Lucina gains , through the actions of the wicked Muslim , Soliman , an opportunity to take revenge , the plot is not very clearly worked out , and Perseda's killing of ...
Page 214
... lover has been executed ) seems arbitrary . It complicates our attitude to Perseda , and then Kyd partly exculpates ... lover's death at Soliman's hands ; though she acts alone , she is prompted by concern for his honour as much as her ...
... lover has been executed ) seems arbitrary . It complicates our attitude to Perseda , and then Kyd partly exculpates ... lover's death at Soliman's hands ; though she acts alone , she is prompted by concern for his honour as much as her ...
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... lover passe through the eye into the spirits of the beloved ; which procures a desire of returning into that body from whence they were emitted , whereupon issues that appetite of conjunction between lovers . * 22 Such Platonic ...
... lover passe through the eye into the spirits of the beloved ; which procures a desire of returning into that body from whence they were emitted , whereupon issues that appetite of conjunction between lovers . * 22 Such Platonic ...
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