In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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Page 62
... Jane Shore . King and courtiers , by ' playing ' can act amorally . When Jane , now Edward's mistress , subsequently appears , " Lady - like attired ... unpinning her Mask , " it emphasises the bawdy use the Court makes of masquing ...
... Jane Shore . King and courtiers , by ' playing ' can act amorally . When Jane , now Edward's mistress , subsequently appears , " Lady - like attired ... unpinning her Mask , " it emphasises the bawdy use the Court makes of masquing ...
Page 121
... Jane to become Edward's mistress because Jane would then be able to share his moral irresponsibility . Blague embodies merely formal piety , with no touch of human kindness . ( The Queen , who might justifiably harm Jane , displays what ...
... Jane to become Edward's mistress because Jane would then be able to share his moral irresponsibility . Blague embodies merely formal piety , with no touch of human kindness . ( The Queen , who might justifiably harm Jane , displays what ...
Page 135
... Jane's sin and her sense of sin are interspersed with images of martyrdom and of the Virgin ( see also p . 121 above ) ; and at one point she is ostentatiously brought the Prayer Book . The result is a kind of pathos which , in its ...
... Jane's sin and her sense of sin are interspersed with images of martyrdom and of the Virgin ( see also p . 121 above ) ; and at one point she is ostentatiously brought the Prayer Book . The result is a kind of pathos which , in its ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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