Women, children, and lack of power

• The power of Elinor (1.1.5)
• Confrontations between the women: 2.1.120ff; 159ff
• The marriage: Blanch's response (509-20), and the Dauphin's Petrarchism (2.1.496-503) -c
  • Compare the Bastard's response, and compare Sonnet 130 (text) (sound)
• Constance gets the news from Salisbury (2.2.12-5)
  • Berates Philip of France (3.1.25ff)
  • The Bastard taunts Austria on her behalf (3.1.57ff)
• Blanch as object of pathos and powerlessness (3.1.226-62)
• Constance: mad, grieving, excessive? (3.3.23-105)
• Arthur and Hubert: persuasion succeeds, briefly (4.1)
• The women disappear (4.2.119-24), Arthur dies (4.3.1-10)


• Physical appearance as motive
  • Constance to Arthur (2.2.43-54)
  • Philip vs. Robert (Sincklo as actor) (1.1.146)