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Nine-day Queen Jane Gray, who fell out of the story. What do we know about her ?? The answer is here! Jane was a very kind queen, fair and honest. People like her deserve respect, but the girl has become a puppet in the hands of adults hungry for power. That's always so, innocent people become victims because of their kindness.
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Informed by film theory and a broad historical approach, Fatal Desire examines the theatrical representation of women in England, from the Restoration to the early eighteenth century—a period when for the first time female actors could perform in public. Jean I. Marsden maintains that the feminization of serious drama during this period is tied to the cultural function of theater. Women served as symbols of both domestic and imperial propriety, and so Marsden links the representation of women on the stage to the social context in which the plays appeared and to the moral and often political lessons they offered the audience. The witty heroines of comedies were usually absorbed into the soc...
A Race of Female Patriots is a study of tragic drama after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 that yields new insight into women's involvement in the public sphere and the political and aesthetic significance of feeling.