In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 193
... Show , to infernal music , which shows Orestes the guilt of Clytemnestra and Egisthus . Fletcher's Priestess of Venus ( The Mad Lover , 1617 ) is a bawdy comic figure ; his Prophetess ( The Prophetess , 1622 ) goes magnificently to Rome ...
... Show , to infernal music , which shows Orestes the guilt of Clytemnestra and Egisthus . Fletcher's Priestess of Venus ( The Mad Lover , 1617 ) is a bawdy comic figure ; his Prophetess ( The Prophetess , 1622 ) goes magnificently to Rome ...
Page 232
... show that courtliness and legality inevitably triumph . Clarinda believes that her virtuous mistress , Calista , is ... shows an apparently serious concern with those social proprieties which actually have the potential for prompting ...
... show that courtliness and legality inevitably triumph . Clarinda believes that her virtuous mistress , Calista , is ... shows an apparently serious concern with those social proprieties which actually have the potential for prompting ...
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... shows . Regan is finally led off sick ; Goneril is at least present at the combat ( the wicked men die ' manfully ' - Edmund enjoying the public decency of combat - the women , like beasts , prey on each other ) . And Goneril's suicide ...
... shows . Regan is finally led off sick ; Goneril is at least present at the combat ( the wicked men die ' manfully ' - Edmund enjoying the public decency of combat - the women , like beasts , prey on each other ) . And Goneril's suicide ...
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