“Throwing the Wedding-Shoe”: Foundational Violence, Unhappy Couples, and Murderous Women

@article{Tromp2013ThrowingTW,
  title={“Throwing the Wedding-Shoe”: Foundational Violence, Unhappy Couples, and Murderous Women},
  author={Marlene Tromp},
  journal={Victorian Review},
  year={2013},
  volume={39},
  pages={39 - 43}
}
  • M. Tromp
  • Published 24 December 2014
  • History
  • Victorian Review
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Arden of Feversham is a powerful play first performed in 1592 and based upon an actual murder that took place in 1551, reappearing in a great variety of forms over the following century (even as a puppet show), with Alice, among other things, ranked with the classical uxoricides Clytemnestra and Livia.
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