In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... Arden of Faversham . Dorothy Tutin played Alice Arden . This still seems to me an excellent reason for writing a study of ' bad ' women in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama . A fascination with Shakespeare's Cleopatra , and some earlier ...
... Arden of Faversham . Dorothy Tutin played Alice Arden . This still seems to me an excellent reason for writing a study of ' bad ' women in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama . A fascination with Shakespeare's Cleopatra , and some earlier ...
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... Arden of Faversham ( 1591 ) is a very different thing ; the representation of adultery is neither pathetic nor sentimental . In the original ' true story ' , given in Holinshed , Arden is said to have winked at Alice's " filthie ...
... Arden of Faversham ( 1591 ) is a very different thing ; the representation of adultery is neither pathetic nor sentimental . In the original ' true story ' , given in Holinshed , Arden is said to have winked at Alice's " filthie ...
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... Arden in a particular social context : Providential protection deserts Arden because , like Worldly Man in Wager's Enough is as Good as a Feast , he exploits others . This does not exculpate Alice for her adultery with Mosby and her ...
... Arden in a particular social context : Providential protection deserts Arden because , like Worldly Man in Wager's Enough is as Good as a Feast , he exploits others . This does not exculpate Alice for her adultery with Mosby and her ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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