In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... prayers of women can bring errant husbands back to God . ) Anything the " second woman " does to hinder this development is bad ; her Christian duty is to accept the solu- tion the Prodigal devises . Jacobean plays sometimes question ...
... prayers of women can bring errant husbands back to God . ) Anything the " second woman " does to hinder this development is bad ; her Christian duty is to accept the solu- tion the Prodigal devises . Jacobean plays sometimes question ...
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... 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 essential virtue in both revenge and suicide , she serves , in this ...
... 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 essential virtue in both revenge and suicide , she serves , in this ...
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... prays to Antonie to accept her in the name of their " holy mariage , " and " babes , knot of [ their ] amitie " ( 1948f . ) . Though the speech attempts to suggest the fullness of Cleopatra's life with Antonie , when she anticipates ...
... prays to Antonie to accept her in the name of their " holy mariage , " and " babes , knot of [ their ] amitie " ( 1948f . ) . Though the speech attempts to suggest the fullness of Cleopatra's life with Antonie , when she anticipates ...
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