In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... faith in humankind . Throughout the play , however , Malevole's most intricately depicted relationship is with the bawd , Maquerelle one of the sinners . On the Elizabethan and Jacobean stages the activities of countless female sinners ...
... faith in humankind . Throughout the play , however , Malevole's most intricately depicted relationship is with the bawd , Maquerelle one of the sinners . On the Elizabethan and Jacobean stages the activities of countless female sinners ...
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... faith , as bawds go to church for fashion sake . " This helps us recognise that when he then says , " Think this : this earth is the only grave and Golgotha wherein all things that live must rot " ( IV.5.107-108 ) he is using the bawd's ...
... faith , as bawds go to church for fashion sake . " This helps us recognise that when he then says , " Think this : this earth is the only grave and Golgotha wherein all things that live must rot " ( IV.5.107-108 ) he is using the bawd's ...
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... faith renewed in divine mercy ; hence both Anne's immediate suicidal reaction to news of Saunders ' death , and Browne's attempt to shield her , are " wrong " in religious terms . 16 Keith Sturgess , ed . , Three Elizabethan Domestic ...
... faith renewed in divine mercy ; hence both Anne's immediate suicidal reaction to news of Saunders ' death , and Browne's attempt to shield her , are " wrong " in religious terms . 16 Keith Sturgess , ed . , Three Elizabethan Domestic ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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