In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... Ladies about the Court had gotten ill names that it was grown a scandalous place , and the Queen herself was much ... Lady Arabella Seymour , 1575-1615 ( 1968 ) , pp . 134ff ; P. N. Handover , Arbella Stuart ( 1957 ) , Chapters XV and ...
... Ladies about the Court had gotten ill names that it was grown a scandalous place , and the Queen herself was much ... Lady Arabella Seymour , 1575-1615 ( 1968 ) , pp . 134ff ; P. N. Handover , Arbella Stuart ( 1957 ) , Chapters XV and ...
Page 103
... Lady tales : in these , the hero is , on pain of death , forced to answer the question of what women love best . He finds that they love sovereignty , and the ugly lady who , on condition that he marry her , has saved his life by ...
... Lady tales : in these , the hero is , on pain of death , forced to answer the question of what women love best . He finds that they love sovereignty , and the ugly lady who , on condition that he marry her , has saved his life by ...
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... Lady tales , although their " message " is far more romantic than realistic , give such authority to the Queen , who sets the Knight the task of discovering what women love best , and to the Lady , who gives him the answer and gains ...
... Lady tales , although their " message " is far more romantic than realistic , give such authority to the Queen , who sets the Knight the task of discovering what women love best , and to the Lady , who gives him the answer and gains ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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