In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... suggests it might be morally " right " ) . 9 When the brother has Horatio killed , Hieronimo's revenge for his son's death relegates Belimperia to a secondary place , while the pathos of her situation serves to ' cleanse ' revenge of ...
... suggests it might be morally " right " ) . 9 When the brother has Horatio killed , Hieronimo's revenge for his son's death relegates Belimperia to a secondary place , while the pathos of her situation serves to ' cleanse ' revenge of ...
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... suggests , is mere rationality . " Coleridge , Hazlitt and Bradley thought them worse than Edmund because they are coldly rational and this means they are " unwomanly . " 28 Goneril , consistently pragmatic , spiritually untrammelled ...
... suggests , is mere rationality . " Coleridge , Hazlitt and Bradley thought them worse than Edmund because they are coldly rational and this means they are " unwomanly . " 28 Goneril , consistently pragmatic , spiritually untrammelled ...
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... suggests , and considers Lear merely another inhabitant to organise . Later , she treats her father as a political obstacle , coolly out - manoeuvring him when he foolishly suggests that her love ( in allowing him fifty knights ) is ...
... suggests , and considers Lear merely another inhabitant to organise . Later , she treats her father as a political obstacle , coolly out - manoeuvring him when he foolishly suggests that her love ( in allowing him fifty knights ) is ...
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