In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... women , as of all things , some good , most bad ; some saints , some sinners , " says Marston's Malcontent , who , in the ... Lady Macbeth and Webster's Vittoria , that they range from the Honest Whore to Massinger's City Madam , from ...
... women , as of all things , some good , most bad ; some saints , some sinners , " says Marston's Malcontent , who , in the ... Lady Macbeth and Webster's Vittoria , that they range from the Honest Whore to Massinger's City Madam , from ...
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... women who rally to Maria's cause is not subjected to ridicule , and Byancha's helping to plot the success of Livia's ... Lady Macbeth's cry to be " un - sexed " : she prays never to be fruitful , or wife except in name , until she makes ...
... women who rally to Maria's cause is not subjected to ridicule , and Byancha's helping to plot the success of Livia's ... Lady Macbeth's cry to be " un - sexed " : she prays never to be fruitful , or wife except in name , until she makes ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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adulteress adultery Alice Alsemero Anne Anne's Arden attitudes bawd bawd's bawdry Beatrice becomes Bellafront Bianca bourgeois brothel characterisation characters chaste claims comic committing adultery condemn conventional corruption court Courtesan courtly cuckold death define Dekker demands depicted desire Devil dramatists Duchess Duke Dusinberre Dutch Courtesan Elizabethan emphasise English exploitation female Fletcher Flores Heywood honest Honest Whore Humorous Lieutenant husband hypocrisy instance Isabella Jacobean drama Jane Jane Shore Katherina kill King's King's Men Lady Leantio Lechery Livia Loathly Lady lust M. C. Bradbrook Maid male Maquerelle marital marriage marry Marston middle-class Middleton moral murder passim passion Petruchio play play's plot Prodigal prostitution punishment Puritan relation relationship repentance represented revenge romantic satiric scene sceptical comedy seems sexual Shakespeare shrew shrewishness Skimmington social society suggests Taming Tamyra theatres Thomas Thomas Middleton tion traditional Tragedy virtue virtuous Vittoria wench whore whoredom wife wives woman Women Beware Women wyffe