In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... thou hast lived " which , as Ridley suggests , 84 85 Cleopatra's relating Antony to the mad boar of Thessaly ( IV.13.1f . ) seems to confirm this view : the boar , enraged and destructive , had to be killed . Antony and Cleopatra , ed ...
... thou hast lived " which , as Ridley suggests , 84 85 Cleopatra's relating Antony to the mad boar of Thessaly ( IV.13.1f . ) seems to confirm this view : the boar , enraged and destructive , had to be killed . Antony and Cleopatra , ed ...
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... Hast thou no care of me ... ? The conventional complaint of a woman left sexually unsatisfied combines with the sense that Antony's death makes all men " boys " ; and Cleopatra's human weakness is perfectly integrated with her semi ...
... Hast thou no care of me ... ? The conventional complaint of a woman left sexually unsatisfied combines with the sense that Antony's death makes all men " boys " ; and Cleopatra's human weakness is perfectly integrated with her semi ...
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