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<DIV>“‘mongst women howling” is from “The White Devil” (5.3.36–7).</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>Elisa
Sparks via Vwoolf</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 7, 2020 1:34 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A
title=vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu>vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] really obscure Elizabethan
reference</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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all--</DIV>
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am researching ivy in Virginia Woolf and have discovered a pattern of references
to owls in the ivy. I have not been able to find any literary origins for
this association which appears no les than six times in Woolf's writing.
Particularly curious is this allusion in her 1925 essay "Notes on an Elizabethan
Play":
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and we scarcely recognise any likeness between the knight who imported timber
and died of pneumonia at Muswell Hill and the Armenian Duke who fell like a
Roman on his sword while the <SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: aqua; mso-highlight: aqua">owl</SPAN> shrieked in the <SPAN
style="BACKGROUND: lime; mso-highlight: lime">ivy</SPAN> and the Duchess gave
birth to a still-born babe ‘mongst women howling (E4 67)</P>
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anyone have any idea what minor Elizabethan dramatist Woolf is citing
here? I am at an utter loss.</P>
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