In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... less immediately exciting motives . Lois Potter read carefully , critically and always with a sense of humour , drafts of this study in its earlier stages , as she had read much of my undergraduate writing . She also suggested that we ...
... less immediately exciting motives . Lois Potter read carefully , critically and always with a sense of humour , drafts of this study in its earlier stages , as she had read much of my undergraduate writing . She also suggested that we ...
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... less obvious dedication to the promulgation of established morality , some dramatists represent as sympathetic characters women who at an earlier time would have been inflexibly judged and condemned . These women are seen in ways which ...
... less obvious dedication to the promulgation of established morality , some dramatists represent as sympathetic characters women who at an earlier time would have been inflexibly judged and condemned . These women are seen in ways which ...
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... less than the Fall . Adultery and its relation to post - lapsarian knowledge is a major theme in Beatrice's tragedy . Adultery was inextricable from courtly love . Beatrice's betrothal to Alonzo , in terms of the courtly sphere she ...
... less than the Fall . Adultery and its relation to post - lapsarian knowledge is a major theme in Beatrice's tragedy . Adultery was inextricable from courtly love . Beatrice's betrothal to Alonzo , in terms of the courtly sphere she ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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