In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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Page 43
... conventional whorehouse , and Romilia dwindles into a passive , conventional whore . * ** 3. Bawds While whores , after a brief period of comic pre - eminence , became re - absorbed into fairly conventional sub - plots , the figure of ...
... conventional whorehouse , and Romilia dwindles into a passive , conventional whore . * ** 3. Bawds While whores , after a brief period of comic pre - eminence , became re - absorbed into fairly conventional sub - plots , the figure of ...
Page 64
... conventional- Ferneze speaks ' Poeticall ' , Aurelia rages righteously , Maquerelle controls everything by talking rapidly while Ferneze " privately feeds [ her ] hands with jewels . " Marston usually avoids the merely conventional ...
... conventional- Ferneze speaks ' Poeticall ' , Aurelia rages righteously , Maquerelle controls everything by talking rapidly while Ferneze " privately feeds [ her ] hands with jewels . " Marston usually avoids the merely conventional ...
Page 149
... conventional condemnation of such ' Ribauldry ' precisely because both the " ribauldry " and the automatic condemnation were matters for moral concern : the convention , that is , created its own anti - convention . The story recognises ...
... conventional condemnation of such ' Ribauldry ' precisely because both the " ribauldry " and the automatic condemnation were matters for moral concern : the convention , that is , created its own anti - convention . The story recognises ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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