In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... Middleton allows her to take advantage of society's weakness and vice : the key - note of her admittance to " decent " ( folly - ridden ) society being in her mother's " Thou'st wedded youth and strength , and wealth will fall./ Last ...
... Middleton allows her to take advantage of society's weakness and vice : the key - note of her admittance to " decent " ( folly - ridden ) society being in her mother's " Thou'st wedded youth and strength , and wealth will fall./ Last ...
Page 126
... Middleton's approval . In granting her independence and integrity Middleton manages to suggest that women demand things when they are denied personal relationships ; that their desire for lusty gallants ( who through poverty might have ...
... Middleton's approval . In granting her independence and integrity Middleton manages to suggest that women demand things when they are denied personal relationships ; that their desire for lusty gallants ( who through poverty might have ...
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... Middleton's satire encompasses this sympathetic view without understating Bianca's acquaintance with sin . Her new , if brittle , awareness can condemn Guardiano's facile sophistication and recognise the Mother's deferential virtue for ...
... Middleton's satire encompasses this sympathetic view without understating Bianca's acquaintance with sin . Her new , if brittle , awareness can condemn Guardiano's facile sophistication and recognise the Mother's deferential virtue for ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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