In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 207
... telling that kind , silly Cuddy treats Sawyer as if she were an ordinary - though out - lawed - white witch who can provide love charms ( II.1.215 ) . It is her tragedy that the visible shape of her power deserts her - the Dog turns ...
... telling that kind , silly Cuddy treats Sawyer as if she were an ordinary - though out - lawed - white witch who can provide love charms ( II.1.215 ) . It is her tragedy that the visible shape of her power deserts her - the Dog turns ...
Page 256
... tell Gloucester how Edmund betrayed him . " Epitome of the " simpering dame , " she tries to win Oswald by hinting that she knows of his relationship with Goneril ; hinting , too , at a relationship between herself and Edmund as she ...
... tell Gloucester how Edmund betrayed him . " Epitome of the " simpering dame , " she tries to win Oswald by hinting that she knows of his relationship with Goneril ; hinting , too , at a relationship between herself and Edmund as she ...
Page 269
... telling her daughter , before she kills her , " My pleasure gaue thee life , and it resumes / That life againe , because it kils my pleasure " ( IV.1685f . ) . Though later scenes , in which Timoclea is disguised as a ghost , hover ...
... telling her daughter , before she kills her , " My pleasure gaue thee life , and it resumes / That life againe , because it kils my pleasure " ( IV.1685f . ) . Though later scenes , in which Timoclea is disguised as a ghost , hover ...
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