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Lusty Widows/Remarried Widows,his ancient myth of women’s sexual ravenousness was not displaced until the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when females were reconstructed as sexless.. Conservative ideologues and world-without-end saws insisted that passion is at its most violent in widows. For women with pretensions to

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Introduction,. At one extreme is . Mistress Overdone. A brothel keeper, noteworthy for her nine husbands, “Overdone by the last” (2.1.202), she mentions none of her erstwhile spouses. At the other is Cleopatra, mourning the death of Antony before her own suicide: