In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 254
... relationship with Oswald . This emphasises her disruption of class barriers , but though it might illustrate how Goneril commends total loyalty ( Dr. Johnson objected to Oswald's loyalty , though not to Edmund's ) , it implies a sexual ...
... relationship with Oswald . This emphasises her disruption of class barriers , but though it might illustrate how Goneril commends total loyalty ( Dr. Johnson objected to Oswald's loyalty , though not to Edmund's ) , it implies a sexual ...
Page 256
... relationship with Goneril ; hinting , too , at a relationship between herself and Edmund as she orders Gloucester's murder . She may briefly triumph when Albany debases Goneril , but Shakespeare strips both to animality ... and ...
... relationship with Goneril ; hinting , too , at a relationship between herself and Edmund as she orders Gloucester's murder . She may briefly triumph when Albany debases Goneril , but Shakespeare strips both to animality ... and ...
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... relation between ' bad ' women and the proud , ' merciless ' courtly mistress , and the relation of the courtly to the Catholic , together with Protestant views of the relation . Here too one might study those women who encounter the ...
... relation between ' bad ' women and the proud , ' merciless ' courtly mistress , and the relation of the courtly to the Catholic , together with Protestant views of the relation . Here too one might study those women who encounter the ...
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