In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... bourgeois pander 124 b . Contented cuckolds 127 CHAPTER III THE OUTRAGEOUS SEAS OF ADULTERY 130 The bourgeois stereotype 133 Courtly adulteries : satire and sympathy 143 Developing the satiric stereotype 152 Middleton : " restraint ...
... bourgeois pander 124 b . Contented cuckolds 127 CHAPTER III THE OUTRAGEOUS SEAS OF ADULTERY 130 The bourgeois stereotype 133 Courtly adulteries : satire and sympathy 143 Developing the satiric stereotype 152 Middleton : " restraint ...
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... bourgeois mothers who want their daughters ' ladied ' are seen as little better . From Mrs. Yellowhammer's encouragement of Moll's virginal - playing and dancing ( in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside ) as talents to attract Sir Walter ...
... bourgeois mothers who want their daughters ' ladied ' are seen as little better . From Mrs. Yellowhammer's encouragement of Moll's virginal - playing and dancing ( in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside ) as talents to attract Sir Walter ...
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... bourgeois wives act like conventional bourgeois adulteresses in order to remain chaste . Marston invites us to see Isabella with a similar double vision . As one character observes , " Desire in women is the life of wit " ( III.1 . p ...
... bourgeois wives act like conventional bourgeois adulteresses in order to remain chaste . Marston invites us to see Isabella with a similar double vision . As one character observes , " Desire in women is the life of wit " ( III.1 . p ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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