In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... changes in attitudes to ' bad ' women . Such changes were , indeed , among those which took place in the drama around 1600 . % * * In 1599 the Children of Pauls ' Company was revived after about a decade of inactivity . The dramatists ...
... changes in attitudes to ' bad ' women . Such changes were , indeed , among those which took place in the drama around 1600 . % * * In 1599 the Children of Pauls ' Company was revived after about a decade of inactivity . The dramatists ...
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... changes in rural population or the decline in country hospitality ; they might be women who had been seduced by gentlemen and could not therefore expect good marriages , or , ironically , girls who hoped to accumulate sufficient money ...
... changes in rural population or the decline in country hospitality ; they might be women who had been seduced by gentlemen and could not therefore expect good marriages , or , ironically , girls who hoped to accumulate sufficient money ...
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... changes irreversibly , while the results of bawdy rhetoric burgeon fatally , in Bianca's touching brittleness , in Isabella's coarse , spoiled innocence . A reversal in one person's psychological and emotional position turns an already ...
... changes irreversibly , while the results of bawdy rhetoric burgeon fatally , in Bianca's touching brittleness , in Isabella's coarse , spoiled innocence . A reversal in one person's psychological and emotional position turns an already ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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