Demi-devils: The Character of Shakespeare's Villains |
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... father and to the surviving prisoners : See , lord and father , how we have perform'd Our Roman rites . Alarbus ' limbs are lopp'd And entrails feed the sacrificing fires , Whose smoke like incense doth perfume the sky . ( I : i : 142 ...
... father and to the surviving prisoners : See , lord and father , how we have perform'd Our Roman rites . Alarbus ' limbs are lopp'd And entrails feed the sacrificing fires , Whose smoke like incense doth perfume the sky . ( I : i : 142 ...
Page 79
... father's service , she says , I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so . Our house is hell ; and thou , a merry devil , Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness . ( II : iii : 1-3 ) Jessica's unsatisfactory relations with her father ...
... father's service , she says , I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so . Our house is hell ; and thou , a merry devil , Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness . ( II : iii : 1-3 ) Jessica's unsatisfactory relations with her father ...
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... father and his daughters . A son may contend for his father's or his brother's place , as Ed- mund does . Edmund is also , in some respects , a type villain . The fact that he is a bastard son would tend to make Elizabethan audiences ...
... father and his daughters . A son may contend for his father's or his brother's place , as Ed- mund does . Edmund is also , in some respects , a type villain . The fact that he is a bastard son would tend to make Elizabethan audiences ...
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