Woman as a Tragic Focus in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

A. H. Bullen affirmation Alsemero Amintor Andrea Annabella Anne Frankford appearance and reality Arbaces Beatrice Beatrice-Joanna Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Bel-imperia Bianca Boccaccio's brother calamity Calantha Changeling character characterization chaste chastity Christian death dramatic dramatist Duchess of Malfi edited Elizabethan Elizabethan and Jacobean Elizabethan Stage embodies ethic Evadne evil female protagonist feminine protagonist final Flores Ford's heroine Fordian frailty Francis Beaumont Giovanni Gismond of Salerne guilt Guisharde hath heroine's honor Horsus human husband ideal Jacobean drama Jacobean tragedy John Ford Killed With Kindness King King of Kent Kyd's liue London loue Lucrece lust Maid's Tragedy marriage Middleton's heroine moral order motif murder nature passion Penthea play repentance revenge romantic heroine Roxena scene Second Maiden's Tragedy Senecan sexual Spanish Tragedy suffering symbol thee theme Thomas Heywood Thomas Middleton thou Tis Pity tradition tragic heroine tragicomedy University Press virtue Vittoria Corombona White Devil Whore wife Woman Killed women