In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... disorder and madness In John the Husband ( ca. 1533 ) , a fabliau - like farce which satirizes both women and the clergy , Johan quibbles , early in the play , " That is the point of an honest man / For to beat his wife well now and ...
... disorder and madness In John the Husband ( ca. 1533 ) , a fabliau - like farce which satirizes both women and the clergy , Johan quibbles , early in the play , " That is the point of an honest man / For to beat his wife well now and ...
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... disorder a . The society Fletcher , though cynical , does admit that women can fill a positive social role ; Jonson , traditionally satiric and 40 misogynistic , more pessimistically considers that active women , 93 The shrew's part in ...
... disorder a . The society Fletcher , though cynical , does admit that women can fill a positive social role ; Jonson , traditionally satiric and 40 misogynistic , more pessimistically considers that active women , 93 The shrew's part in ...
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... disorder in the individual Oldenbarnveldt makes a conventional association between shrewishness and libertinism ( or " free thinking " ) and promiscuity . ( This is a consistent charge , from Johan [ 1553 ] to The Launching of the Mary ...
... disorder in the individual Oldenbarnveldt makes a conventional association between shrewishness and libertinism ( or " free thinking " ) and promiscuity . ( This is a consistent charge , from Johan [ 1553 ] to The Launching of the Mary ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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