In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... sent to die . She is generally a sympathetic charac- ter , except when she determines to harm Banks by hurting his son , Cuddy . And Cuddy's imperviousness to this qualifies our sympathy for Sawyer . Her part in the play seems to plead ...
... sent to die . She is generally a sympathetic charac- ter , except when she determines to harm Banks by hurting his son , Cuddy . And Cuddy's imperviousness to this qualifies our sympathy for Sawyer . Her part in the play seems to plead ...
Page 226
... sent to a religious house . Jacinta is " taken back " by her " husband . " Rowley's AZZ's Lost by Lust ( Lady Elizabeth's Men ) , produced in the same year , has an even more complex plot which seems to draw on all the earlier broken ...
... sent to a religious house . Jacinta is " taken back " by her " husband . " Rowley's AZZ's Lost by Lust ( Lady Elizabeth's Men ) , produced in the same year , has an even more complex plot which seems to draw on all the earlier broken ...
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... sent to a monastery , probably less because she abetted her brother's vengeance against the Duke than because she is technically " irredeemable " her seducer , the Duke , is dead and therefore cannot marry her and make an " honest 32 ...
... sent to a monastery , probably less because she abetted her brother's vengeance against the Duke than because she is technically " irredeemable " her seducer , the Duke , is dead and therefore cannot marry her and make an " honest 32 ...
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