The wicked? stepmother
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The Stepmother's Cruelty
Shakespeare was permutating a lot of received elements, especially fairy tale elements. There's one called the stepmothers tragedy by Am Henry Cheadle and Thomas Decker. And maybe that was like a... It was a tragedy, but maybe it's not exactly happy ever after. I want to end on a more optimistic and less gruesome note to Marina. So where should we look for these contemporary reworkings of this figure, Sabina?"
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