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Originally Posted by UNREGISTERED Those examples of poetic justice that ------in medieval and Elizabethan literature, and that seem so satisfying, have encouraged a whole school of twentieth-century scholars to “find” -------- examples. In fact, these scholars have merely -------victimized character into a moral framework by which the injustices inflicted on them are, somehow or other, justified. Such scholars deny that the sufferers in a -------- are innocent; they blame the victims themselves for their tragic fates. Any ---------- is enough to subject a character to critical whips.
Yet it should be remembered that the Renaissance writer Matteo Bandello strongly --------- the injustice of the severe ------------- issued to women for acts of disobedience that men could, and did, --------- with virtual impunity. And Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Webster often ------- their readers on the side of their tragic heroines by describing ---------so cruel that readers cannot but join in protest.
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