In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... evil actions are depicted as ' sins ' rather than ' crimes , ' and sexual ' sin ' is the most frequently depicted . There are a number of ideas implicit in this reductive- ness , which in itself is the basis for the formulation of a ...
... evil actions are depicted as ' sins ' rather than ' crimes , ' and sexual ' sin ' is the most frequently depicted . There are a number of ideas implicit in this reductive- ness , which in itself is the basis for the formulation of a ...
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... evil " women , even adulteresses and court women : they still seemed evil , but their roles were at least interesting and partly explicable - and where there is interest and analysis there can also be sympathy . As Middleton's Livia ...
... evil " women , even adulteresses and court women : they still seemed evil , but their roles were at least interesting and partly explicable - and where there is interest and analysis there can also be sympathy . As Middleton's Livia ...
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... evil woman , but this Clytemnestra - like adulteress becomes funny because she is contained within a Christian , and comic , pattern of reconciliation and redemption . Banished by Mendoza , the conventional villain , Aurelia is ...
... evil woman , but this Clytemnestra - like adulteress becomes funny because she is contained within a Christian , and comic , pattern of reconciliation and redemption . Banished by Mendoza , the conventional villain , Aurelia is ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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