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In one play, a discussion about this figure is interrupted by a woman raving about “A moiety (“MOY-uh-tee”) of that mass of moan to come.” In that play, characters are swayed not to abandon this figure after a speech calling this figure “a theme of honor and renown, / A spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds.” The protagonist of another play describes this woman as “More lovely than the monarch of the sky / In wanton Arethusa’s (10[1])(“ARR-uh-THOO-suh”) azured arms” when she appears (10[1])with two Cupids. In that play, three scholars are astonished when this woman arrives at the protagonist’s final feast before he is fated to die. (10[1])After (10[1])stabbing himself (-5[1])in the arm to sign his name with blood, (10[1])the protagonist of that (10[1]-5[1])play asks (-5[1])this woman to “make (-5[1])me immortal (10[2])with (10[2])a kiss.” (10[5]-5[1])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])name this woman, whom Doctor Faustus (10[1])says possesses (10[1])“the face that launched (10[1])a thousand (10[1])ships.” ■END■ (10[3])

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