10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VOTRESS»
Discover the use of
votress in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
votress and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
A votress of Titania does nothing of the kind. While the woman's vows (if any) are
obscure, Titania's votress was a "mother" (2.1.123), who lived "in the spiced
Indian air" (2.1.124), "gossip'd by [Titania's] side" at night (2.1.125), sat with her
on ...
2
Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary ...
A shadow for Mary Tudor's sister, Elizabeth, whose lifelong spinsterhood had the
political benef1t of defending her rule and her nation from bounders like Claudius
, the "imperial votress" figures precisely the virginal status to which Hamlet ...
3
Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page
The difference between them is emblematized by two just- so stories about the
different aspects of love's power: Titania's explanation of her maternal love for the
little Indian boy whose mortal mother was her pregnant votress, and Oberon's ...
Dr Sarah K Scott, Professor Michael L Stapleton, 2013
4
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, second ...
Ifshe be a votress to Nature, you are the only person fit to be Lady Prioress; and
so by your power and authority you may give us leave to visit your nuns
sometimes. MADAME MEDIATOR. Not but at a grate,2 unless in time of building,
or when ...
Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, 2012
5
The Forest King: Tracy Hickman Presents the Anvil of Time
So she was Silvanos's sister, the Divine Votress of the Greenwood? Her name,
she knew from common knowledge, was Amaranthe. Silvanos had made her
Divine Votress, the highest of high priestesses in the land. The Divine Votress
was an ...
6
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 3: The ...
If she be a votress to Nature, you are the only person fit to be Lady Prioress; and
so by your power and authority you may give us leave to visit your nuns
sometimes. MADAME MEDIATOR. Not but at a grate,2 unless in time of building,
or when ...
Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, 2006
7
Ancient Records of Egypt: The twentieth to the twenty-sixth ...
... Apries (H c c -yb-R "0 ; Son of Re: Wahibre (W 3 h-yb-R c), who liveth. Death
and Burial of Nitocris 988G. Year 4, fourth month of the third season, 8day 4, of
this king; went forth the Divine Votress (Dw3 t-ntr), Nitocris, triumphant, to heaven.
James Henry Breasted, 1906
8
The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a ...
She is a votress.' Tho. Let her be what she will, she will undo thee. Let her but
one hour out, as I direct you, Or have among your nuns again ! Abbeu. You have
no project But fair and honest P The. As thine eyes, sweet abbcss. Abbe". I will be
...
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Alexander Dyce, 1879
9
Three Seventeenth-Century Plays on Women and Performance
Is there no hopes? Madam Mediator. Faith, little. 45 Facil. Let us fee the clergy to
persuade her out for the good of the commonwealth. Madam Mediator. Alas,
gentlemen, they can do no good, for she is not a votress to the gods but to nature.
Hero Chalmers, Julie Sanders, Sophie Tomlinson, 2006
10
The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Then followed successive invasions and dominations by the Persians, the
Greeks, and the Romans. In Thebes, before the Ethiopian Dominion, civil power
was invested in the " Divine Votress or Consort of Amon," an off1ce which carried
with it ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VOTRESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
votress is used in the context of the following news items.
My Religion is Just as Fake as Yours
... the Dalai Lama on things like sexual mores, he sounds disappointingly more like Pope Benedict than like some sexually liberated votress of a goddess from a ... «Patheos, Jul 12»
A midsummer's misunderstanding
... between Earth and Heaven; the Little Indian Boy (whom Titania and Oberon fight over) = the Jewish Messiah; the little boy's Votress mother = the Virgin Mary; ... «The Villager, Mar 07»
