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The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
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In dramatizing a woman's sexual choices in a notably sympathetic manner, this tragedy articulates perennial questions about female autonomy and class distinction.

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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
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Emma Smith
Keywords
jacobean
language
theatre
elizabethan
renaissance
#greatwriters
english
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 24/11/2009
Duration: 00:37:41

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