In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 221
... Lust is not Love , for Lust will finde a mate While there are men , and so will I : and more Then one , or twenty.22 Her attempt to raise issue , and wrenches Her plan to disgrace Leucippus , and make her daughter heir confuses our ...
... Lust is not Love , for Lust will finde a mate While there are men , and so will I : and more Then one , or twenty.22 Her attempt to raise issue , and wrenches Her plan to disgrace Leucippus , and make her daughter heir confuses our ...
Page 230
... lust - having vowed to love no man but for revenge ( III.2.1250f . ) , she rejects the man who claims to have killed Sforza . Her " high spirit " and " masculine virtue , " directed to political rather than sexual ends , are presented ...
... lust - having vowed to love no man but for revenge ( III.2.1250f . ) , she rejects the man who claims to have killed Sforza . Her " high spirit " and " masculine virtue , " directed to political rather than sexual ends , are presented ...
Page 268
... lust and cruelty , qualities which reduce her to the inhuman- " Her life was beastly and devoid of pity / And being dead , let birds on her take pity " ( V.3.199 ) . 50 Tamora's type , generally represented as excessively lustful , is ...
... lust and cruelty , qualities which reduce her to the inhuman- " Her life was beastly and devoid of pity / And being dead , let birds on her take pity " ( V.3.199 ) . 50 Tamora's type , generally represented as excessively lustful , is ...
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