In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... ambiguous , even lenient , attitude to whores which , in the early 1600's , prevailed in plays written for the boys ' companies . For those companies even Dekker 46 departs from his habitually moralistic attitude : in Northward Ho ...
... ambiguous , even lenient , attitude to whores which , in the early 1600's , prevailed in plays written for the boys ' companies . For those companies even Dekker 46 departs from his habitually moralistic attitude : in Northward Ho ...
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... ambiguous advertising encourages the country - woman to bring her daughter in the belief she will be innocently employed . Steele rightly thought that the " examina- tion for business ... the crying down of [ the daughter's ] value for ...
... ambiguous advertising encourages the country - woman to bring her daughter in the belief she will be innocently employed . Steele rightly thought that the " examina- tion for business ... the crying down of [ the daughter's ] value for ...
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... ambiguity of The White Devil . Leantio treasures Bianca , his " unvaluedest purchase " ( I.1.13 ) for her beauty and her " jewel , " though he lacks the means to maintain her in her accustomed luxury . He claims proudly not to desire ...
... ambiguity of The White Devil . Leantio treasures Bianca , his " unvaluedest purchase " ( I.1.13 ) for her beauty and her " jewel , " though he lacks the means to maintain her in her accustomed luxury . He claims proudly not to desire ...
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