"The Burial of the Dead" Annotations
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"Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!" | "Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!" | ||
| − | This is an excerpt | + | This is an excerpt John Websters '''The White Devil.''' This section is part of a mother's lamentation about her son's murder by her other son. Fratricide is also a word used to describe the war. In this case, the betrayal that wrought about the fratricide was both sexual and political. |
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"You! hypocrite lecteur! ''- mon semblable, - mon frere''!" | "You! hypocrite lecteur! ''- mon semblable, - mon frere''!" | ||
