In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... Bawdry in the sceptical tradition One way the revived boys ' companies effectively competed with the adult drama ... bawdry - increased commerce , profit - making 77 and conspicuous consumption . Sceptical writers therefore show the ...
... Bawdry in the sceptical tradition One way the revived boys ' companies effectively competed with the adult drama ... bawdry - increased commerce , profit - making 77 and conspicuous consumption . Sceptical writers therefore show the ...
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... bawdry in order to have them all arrested is , to some extent , the obverse of a Prodigal's actions . When the sinners reappear , blue - gowned from Bridewell a situation where a Prodigal might repent - Luke's excessive ( and ...
... bawdry in order to have them all arrested is , to some extent , the obverse of a Prodigal's actions . When the sinners reappear , blue - gowned from Bridewell a situation where a Prodigal might repent - Luke's excessive ( and ...
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... bawdry . * ܀ Court bawdry Urban bawdry , generally a comic subject , became a satiric weapon against citizens whose financial exploitation of people was equated with the exploitation involved in bawdry . In sceptical comedy , the ...
... bawdry . * ܀ Court bawdry Urban bawdry , generally a comic subject , became a satiric weapon against citizens whose financial exploitation of people was equated with the exploitation involved in bawdry . In sceptical comedy , the ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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