In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... sense of royal power . * * * to Daniel's view of Cleopatra is , necessarily , broader : sustain five Acts alone , she must be more than a mere penitent dying to repay a debt . Daniel presents her in a series of dis- junctive attitudes ...
... sense of royal power . * * * to Daniel's view of Cleopatra is , necessarily , broader : sustain five Acts alone , she must be more than a mere penitent dying to repay a debt . Daniel presents her in a series of dis- junctive attitudes ...
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... sense that they are politically important ( as we do , for instance , in some comedies like Marston's What You Will ) . It is signif- icant that in the only comedy where one man's actions do seem to cause social , national disruption ...
... sense that they are politically important ( as we do , for instance , in some comedies like Marston's What You Will ) . It is signif- icant that in the only comedy where one man's actions do seem to cause social , national disruption ...
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... sense , and can , as well , whole- heartedly agree with something Carolyn Heilbrun has recently said with regard to Shakespeare : Inevitably , ... we are overcome by a sense of loss in surveying Shakespeare's essential conservatism and ...
... sense , and can , as well , whole- heartedly agree with something Carolyn Heilbrun has recently said with regard to Shakespeare : Inevitably , ... we are overcome by a sense of loss in surveying Shakespeare's essential conservatism and ...
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