In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... Fletcher and Massinger's The Custom of the Country ( King's Men , 1620 ) where the bawd , Sulpitia , proprietor of a male stew for " young Ladies / And high fed City dames , " 85 charitably saves Rutilio from arrest and employs him ...
... Fletcher and Massinger's The Custom of the Country ( King's Men , 1620 ) where the bawd , Sulpitia , proprietor of a male stew for " young Ladies / And high fed City dames , " 85 charitably saves Rutilio from arrest and employs him ...
Page 68
... Fletcher had made 98 " Leucippe's baseness more odious " is an attitude inimical to this type of humour . The atmosphere is that of urban comedy : the oppressiveness of Celia's courtly reception is dissipated ( unlike Lucina's ) by the ...
... Fletcher had made 98 " Leucippe's baseness more odious " is an attitude inimical to this type of humour . The atmosphere is that of urban comedy : the oppressiveness of Celia's courtly reception is dissipated ( unlike Lucina's ) by the ...
Page 110
... Fletcher indicates that ' gentry ' like the Cozen should go home ; but some gentry are better off in London , and their marriages , built on social position , are rightly dominated by women who are adept at social machinations . the The ...
... Fletcher indicates that ' gentry ' like the Cozen should go home ; but some gentry are better off in London , and their marriages , built on social position , are rightly dominated by women who are adept at social machinations . the The ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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