In the flurry of newspaper articles announcing the first West End production, reporters tended to play up SD
's working-class background, her defiance of social conventions, and even her height. A Daily Mail article from...
Textual Features
Emma Robinson
Her protagonist Caesar or Cesare
(illegitimate son of a Pope, brother to Lucrezia Borgia
, example much cited by Niccolò Machiavelli
) had a career that moved in the opposite direction from Richelieu's: he was...
Textual Production
Jean Plaidy
JP
's historical novel Light on Lucrezia, 1958, provides a fictionalized account of the marital and romantic adventures of the notorious Lucrezia Borgia
(actually daughter of Pope Alexander VI
). The novel assumes Lucrezia...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Michael Field
This drama treats the life of Lucrezia Borgia
, notorious daughter of Pope Alexander VI
.
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