In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... seems arbitrarily determined ( her oddly timed appearance [ III.9 ] , following that of Horatio's mother , suggests that Kyd wanted to pad out the two female roles ) . Belimperia's suicide seems to confirm her love for Horatio ; it is ...
... seems arbitrarily determined ( her oddly timed appearance [ III.9 ] , following that of Horatio's mother , suggests that Kyd wanted to pad out the two female roles ) . Belimperia's suicide seems to confirm her love for Horatio ; it is ...
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... seems arbitrary . It complicates our attitude to Perseda , and then Kyd partly exculpates her by giving her revenge against Soliman ( the anti - Christian invader ) a patriotic tone . The ambiguity remains , though , because Perseda ...
... seems arbitrary . It complicates our attitude to Perseda , and then Kyd partly exculpates her by giving her revenge against Soliman ( the anti - Christian invader ) a patriotic tone . The ambiguity remains , though , because Perseda ...
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... seems to colour the action of the play partly through the simple pun on dying . Associated with Cleopatra , death seems regenerative , and it is partly through the ambiguity of " dying " that Shakespeare fashions an image which ...
... seems to colour the action of the play partly through the simple pun on dying . Associated with Cleopatra , death seems regenerative , and it is partly through the ambiguity of " dying " that Shakespeare fashions an image which ...
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