In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... male authority . Shrews usurp that authority by denying the absolute correspondence between sexuality and procreation , since outside that correspon- dence is the male preserve the public sphere , the sphere of real 3 1 2 3 See F. Utley ...
... male authority . Shrews usurp that authority by denying the absolute correspondence between sexuality and procreation , since outside that correspon- dence is the male preserve the public sphere , the sphere of real 3 1 2 3 See F. Utley ...
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... male attitudes 27 towards women . Shakespeare is , of course , subtler than other writers , and the play's humour is more moderate than that of The Taming of A Shrew : a scene of witty , private dialogue , for instance , replaces a ...
... male attitudes 27 towards women . Shakespeare is , of course , subtler than other writers , and the play's humour is more moderate than that of The Taming of A Shrew : a scene of witty , private dialogue , for instance , replaces a ...
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... male servants who help Petruchio degrade her and over whom Petruchio demonstrates his mastery by beating them . This may be , of course , more " humane " than beating her . Katherina is made to exist as an animal - a shrew , a falcon ...
... male servants who help Petruchio degrade her and over whom Petruchio demonstrates his mastery by beating them . This may be , of course , more " humane " than beating her . Katherina is made to exist as an animal - a shrew , a falcon ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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adulteress adultery Alice Alsemero Anne Anne's Arden attitudes bawd bawd's bawdry Beatrice becomes Bellafront Bianca bourgeois brothel characterisation characters chaste claims comic committing adultery condemn conventional corruption court Courtesan courtly cuckold death define Dekker demands depicted desire Devil dramatists Duchess Duke Dusinberre Dutch Courtesan Elizabethan emphasise English exploitation female Fletcher Flores Heywood honest Honest Whore Humorous Lieutenant husband hypocrisy instance Isabella Jacobean drama Jane Jane Shore Katherina kill King's King's Men Lady Leantio Lechery Livia Loathly Lady lust M. C. Bradbrook Maid male Maquerelle marital marriage marry Marston middle-class Middleton moral murder passim passion Petruchio play play's plot Prodigal prostitution punishment Puritan relation relationship repentance represented revenge romantic satiric scene sceptical comedy seems sexual Shakespeare shrew shrewishness Skimmington social society suggests Taming Tamyra theatres Thomas Thomas Middleton tion traditional Tragedy virtue virtuous Vittoria wench whore whoredom wife wives woman Women Beware Women wyffe