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Chastising Female Chastity: Social Criticisms of Female Virtue in Cyril Tourneur's "The Revenger's Tragedy," Thomas Middleton's "The Second Maiden's Tragedy," and Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's "The Maid's Tragedy"

Karasik, Samantha (The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY., 1-Dec-11)

The objective of this analysis is to chronicle the idealization and subsequent deprecation of the chaste Renaissance woman in three seventeenth century revenge tragedies. This paper first explores Renaissance society's ...