{"id":179,"date":"2018-04-16T11:10:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T10:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sel3392-agnes-de-castro\/?page_id=179"},"modified":"2018-06-22T11:53:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T10:53:31","slug":"agnes-de-castro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sel3392-agnes-de-castro\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<strong>CONTENTS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ed\/Portrait_of_Catharine_Cockburn.jpg\/200px-Portrait_of_Catharine_Cockburn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"249\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catharine_Trotter_Cockbur\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. Catharine Trotter. Accessed 16\/04\/18.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sel3392-agnes-de-castro\/author-bio\/\"><strong>Author Bio.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Catherine Trotter: a\u00a0brief summary of her life, work, and legacy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sel3392-agnes-de-castro\/whats-it-all-about\/\"><strong>What&#8217;s it all about?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A summary of the play, and a\u00a0map of the characters showing how they are connected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sel3392-agnes-de-castro\/what-a-fop\/\"><strong>What A Fop!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Colley Cibber (who played Lorenzo): a short biography of his life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sel3392-agnes-de-castro\/ex-boyfriends-are-just-off-limits-to-friends-i-mean-thats-just-like-the-rules-of-feminism\/\"><strong>&#8216;Ex-Boyfriends are just off limits to friends!&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What <em>Agnes de Castro<\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0377092\/\"><em>Mean Girls<\/em> <\/a>have in common, and why Constantia is a misfit in the world of tragedy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sel3392-agnes-de-castro\/files\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-16-at-10.58.20-214x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:1696_Trotter_Agnes_de_Castro.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. Agnes De Castro.\u00a0 Accessed on 16\/04\/18.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sel3392-agnes-de-castro\/tragedy\/\"><strong>Tragedy!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A closer look at the tragic genre and its use of metaphor, and a summary of and response to Isabel Pinto&#8217;s analysis of\u00a0<em>Agnes De Castro.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sel3392-agnes-de-castro\/trust-vs-tragedy-girlsrule\/\"><strong>Trust Vs. Tragedy: #Girls Rule<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">An analysis of the two central female relationships, showing\u00a0 how Trotter transforms Aphra Behn&#8217;s novella into a feminist play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sel3392-agnes-de-castro\/girl-power-the-women-of-agnes-de-castro\/\"><strong>Girl Power &#8211; The Women of Agnes de Castro<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The power imbalance and stereotypes in the play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sel3392-agnes-de-castro\/a-modern-adaption-of-agnes\/\"><strong>A Modern Adaptation of Agnes.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Taking Agnes de Castro into the 21st century: how feminism was totally around in Catherine Trotter&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NOTE: This blog has been lightly copy-edited by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/elll\/staff\/profile\/jamesharriman-smith.html#background\">James Harriman-Smith<\/a>. 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