In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... encouraged to believe that " squint - eyed sight / [ Can ] strike the world's deformities so , 76 right . To view with " squint - eyed sight " the things which citizens considered the worst sins became a way of blaming brothelry on ...
... encouraged to believe that " squint - eyed sight / [ Can ] strike the world's deformities so , 76 right . To view with " squint - eyed sight " the things which citizens considered the worst sins became a way of blaming brothelry on ...
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... encourages compromise : shrews learn that they can be " equal " and enjoy fellowship only by being submissive ; violence and irrationality constitute resistance to Divine Necessity . " 24 Shrewish madness in a wife can , depending on ...
... encourages compromise : shrews learn that they can be " equal " and enjoy fellowship only by being submissive ; violence and irrationality constitute resistance to Divine Necessity . " 24 Shrewish madness in a wife can , depending on ...
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... encouraged wilfulness , but moralistic commentators ( like Painter ) condemn the expression of wilfulness . In the play the Countess , Isabella is made to embody misogynistic commonplaces : for instance , as a widow , she feigns sorrow ...
... encouraged wilfulness , but moralistic commentators ( like Painter ) condemn the expression of wilfulness . In the play the Countess , Isabella is made to embody misogynistic commonplaces : for instance , as a widow , she feigns sorrow ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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