In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 213
... situation serves to ' cleanse ' revenge of any associations with illicit love . Though she continues to defy her family ( as she supposedly had in loving Andrea ) , her behaviour seems arbitrarily determined ( her oddly timed appearance ...
... situation serves to ' cleanse ' revenge of any associations with illicit love . Though she continues to defy her family ( as she supposedly had in loving Andrea ) , her behaviour seems arbitrarily determined ( her oddly timed appearance ...
Page 249
... situation , is made to seem increasingly inhuman , though it is sometimes ' right ' . Her assumption of Lancastrian honour when Henry disinherits Edward is , for instance , politically justi- fiable ( Pt . III , I.1.213f . ) , but ...
... situation , is made to seem increasingly inhuman , though it is sometimes ' right ' . Her assumption of Lancastrian honour when Henry disinherits Edward is , for instance , politically justi- fiable ( Pt . III , I.1.213f . ) , but ...
Page 269
... situation - being ousted from power when her son Theodoret comes of age is at the very beginning of the play , reduced to comedy when Theodoret lengthily rebukes her " loose and lasie pleasures . " 52 Her resolution to kill him " drunk ...
... situation - being ousted from power when her son Theodoret comes of age is at the very beginning of the play , reduced to comedy when Theodoret lengthily rebukes her " loose and lasie pleasures . " 52 Her resolution to kill him " drunk ...
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