In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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Page 105
... desire , / To have do's them wrong . " Silvio reads from the paper his Lady has given him : ' Tis not to be chaste , nor fair , Such gifts malice may impair ; Richly trimm'd to walk or ride , Or to wanton unespy'd ; To preserve an ...
... desire , / To have do's them wrong . " Silvio reads from the paper his Lady has given him : ' Tis not to be chaste , nor fair , Such gifts malice may impair ; Richly trimm'd to walk or ride , Or to wanton unespy'd ; To preserve an ...
Page 149
... Desire in women is the life of wit " ( III.1 . p . 45 ) : Marston exaggerates Isabella's desire and wit , so that while in her pursuit of lovers she seems emblematic - a mannered miniature of Venus with boar - like impulses she becomes ...
... Desire in women is the life of wit " ( III.1 . p . 45 ) : Marston exaggerates Isabella's desire and wit , so that while in her pursuit of lovers she seems emblematic - a mannered miniature of Venus with boar - like impulses she becomes ...
Page 162
... desire other women now that he possesses her . He quite properly dominates this and his next scene : the environment is his world —–— a young man making his way in mercantile society he rules his devoted mother and controls the most ...
... desire other women now that he possesses her . He quite properly dominates this and his next scene : the environment is his world —–— a young man making his way in mercantile society he rules his devoted mother and controls the most ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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