In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... ultimately Shakespeare condemns her on two counts , one historical and ' French ' , one more symbolic and English . It seems clear , as Marina Warner has recently shown , that 6 7 Spenser , The Faery Queene , Book V , Canto VII . See ...
... ultimately Shakespeare condemns her on two counts , one historical and ' French ' , one more symbolic and English . It seems clear , as Marina Warner has recently shown , that 6 7 Spenser , The Faery Queene , Book V , Canto VII . See ...
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... ultimately beaten . Fletcher's Bonduca also is brave but beaten , while her daughters are subjected to somewhat gratuitous and farcically presented castigation for cruelty before they die with Stoic propriety . 8 9 Marina Warner , Joan ...
... ultimately beaten . Fletcher's Bonduca also is brave but beaten , while her daughters are subjected to somewhat gratuitous and farcically presented castigation for cruelty before they die with Stoic propriety . 8 9 Marina Warner , Joan ...
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... ultimately , as merely Macbeth's wife ; more than this is , of course , hinted at with , perhaps , the help of the Three Weird Sisters who form their own 16 " family " unit outside any Christian " normal " scheme of things . While in ...
... ultimately , as merely Macbeth's wife ; more than this is , of course , hinted at with , perhaps , the help of the Three Weird Sisters who form their own 16 " family " unit outside any Christian " normal " scheme of things . While in ...
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