In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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Page 78
... husbands ' salvation by providing purgatory on earth . The " Delilah " aspect of shrewishness is included in general characterisations of shrews - to whom a good husband is one who is rich , malleable and sexually capable . Stories of ...
... husbands ' salvation by providing purgatory on earth . The " Delilah " aspect of shrewishness is included in general characterisations of shrews - to whom a good husband is one who is rich , malleable and sexually capable . Stories of ...
Page 79
... husbands ' " ware " ( and its imperfections ) . Sometimes , though , they may be shown literally to " waste " their husbands , like Mayd Emlyn who killed one husband not so she could enjoy 16 widowed freedom but so that she could marry ...
... husbands ' " ware " ( and its imperfections ) . Sometimes , though , they may be shown literally to " waste " their husbands , like Mayd Emlyn who killed one husband not so she could enjoy 16 widowed freedom but so that she could marry ...
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... husband ; sympathy for " errant " wives is most easily evoked when husbands are foolish or impotent or both ( as , for instance , in The White Devil ) . Sympathetically to portray an adulteress means to relinquish the idea of the ...
... husband ; sympathy for " errant " wives is most easily evoked when husbands are foolish or impotent or both ( as , for instance , in The White Devil ) . Sympathetically to portray an adulteress means to relinquish the idea of the ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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