10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VOTARESS»
Discover the use of
votaress in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
votaress and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary
Samuel Crowl, 'A World Elsewhere: Shakespeare's Roman Plays onFilm and
Television' (1994: 162) notes IreneWorth's performance on theBBC TV version.
votaress,(a)afemale votary, awoman devoted toa religious life or to a special
saint.
2
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
The baby's mother was herself a “votaress” like Hermia and like Diana, and, like
them, a point of mediation between mortal and immortal worlds. Titania
dramatises a moment in a friendship which, natural, human and playful as it was,
was also ...
3
Empire of Gold: Foundations
And it seems to me that you, too, were appointed to your office, votaress.” “I
inherited my office, and Umakishtar, an expedient man, saw fit to recognize that.”
A thousand replies ran through his head but all went wisely unexpressed. “
Votaress ...
4
The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of ...
8 Report i 6"To this effect: The scribe Patjauemdiamun of the House9 of the
Votaress of Amun10 has come. 7He has arrived in Elephantine in order to
demand the grain which has been fixed" for the House of the Votaress of Amun
8and he ...
5
The Ocean Queen, and Other Poems
FASHION'S. VOTARESS. 1 KNEW her when, as fairy light, She 'mid the scenes of
childhood stray'd, When o'er her laughing eyes so bright, The sunny ringlets
wildly play'd ; Then, all was artless joy and peace, \Vithin her gently heaving
breast ...
Henry Gardiner Adams, 1836
6
Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character ...
Referring to the votaress's womb as “rich with my young squire,” Titania erases
the reproductive agency of a biological father, just as Theseus elides the
reproductive agency of Hermia's biological mother in the fantasy of male
parthenogenesis ...
7
Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical Essays
Her private memory of the changeling's mother also functions as a judicial
defense based on the hierarchical relation between Titania and her votaress.
While Leonard Barkan has discussed the connection between rhetoric and
sodomy in the ...
8
Desdemona: the magnifico's child. Meg and Alice; the merry ...
Mary Cowden Clarke. ISABELLA ; THE VOTARESS. TALE VI. ISABELLA ; THE
VOTARESS. “ A thing ensky'd,
9
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson,
Edward Capell, George Steevens, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe. His woful
queen leave at Ephesus, Unto Diana there a votaress l. Now to Marina bend your
mind, ...
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, 1821
10
The Bible and Western Culture
If a citizen has taken a priestess-wife, and that priestess has given a bondmaid to
her husband and she has borne children, if that man plan to take a votaress (as
concubine), they shall not give that citizen permission, a votaress he may not ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VOTARESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
votaress is used in the context of the following news items.
Giove in Argo review – seductive rare revival of Handel's recycled …
Giove (Jupiter) pursues the nymph Calisto through a forest sacred to Diana, whose votaress Calisto has become. She, however, is also being pursued by her ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
Wordplay Shakespeare: ebooks that make ye olde Shakespearean …
But it will certainly be a huge help when you're pushing midnight, trying to help your kid make sense of what Oberon meant by imperial votaress. Yeah, this is ... «Cool Mom Tech, Jan 14»
Under the Crescent Moon: The Huntress as (Angry) Object of Desire
(“Swan Lake” and “The Sleeping Beauty” feature the two best-known examples.) Aminta, of course, falls in love with Sylvia at first sight, and she, chaste votaress ... «New York Times, Jun 09»
