In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... marriage , from which it emerges that most authorities considered that pre- contract invalidated " second marriages . Since marriage con- cerned most people , plays exploring matrimonial anxieties and confusion as to where to place ...
... marriage , from which it emerges that most authorities considered that pre- contract invalidated " second marriages . Since marriage con- cerned most people , plays exploring matrimonial anxieties and confusion as to where to place ...
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... marry her . Virolet divorces Juliana , but his attempt to honour both ' marriages ' , by refusing to consummate his marriage to Martia , incurs Martia's hate . She joins with the tyrant against her own father ( further " proof " of her ...
... marry her . Virolet divorces Juliana , but his attempt to honour both ' marriages ' , by refusing to consummate his marriage to Martia , incurs Martia's hate . She joins with the tyrant against her own father ( further " proof " of her ...
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... marriage - Soranzo once seduced and betrayed a married woman ( Hippolita ) ; Annabella is pregnant by her own brother but it also brings her own death . This is not divine justice , for justice has " fled to heaven , " and Hippolita's ...
... marriage - Soranzo once seduced and betrayed a married woman ( Hippolita ) ; Annabella is pregnant by her own brother but it also brings her own death . This is not divine justice , for justice has " fled to heaven , " and Hippolita's ...
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