In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... proper to women , they create dramati- cally vital characters whose actions and motives are shown to merit analysis , and even sympathy . It would be wrong to argue that the only vividly realized female characters in Elizabethan ...
... proper to women , they create dramati- cally vital characters whose actions and motives are shown to merit analysis , and even sympathy . It would be wrong to argue that the only vividly realized female characters in Elizabethan ...
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... proper " con- clusion procreation : " Come , Kate , we'll to bed . " Juliet Dusinberre suggests that Katherina's final speech reflects an Elizabethan / Puritan concern to see the household as " the microcosm of the State , and women's ...
... proper " con- clusion procreation : " Come , Kate , we'll to bed . " Juliet Dusinberre suggests that Katherina's final speech reflects an Elizabethan / Puritan concern to see the household as " the microcosm of the State , and women's ...
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... proper disposition of property . -lands and , in any class , heirs . Moll's materialistic require- ments - coach and coach - man , with two horses , a " guarded Lackey , " 78 Compare the objections to proper wifely tasks in ...
... proper disposition of property . -lands and , in any class , heirs . Moll's materialistic require- ments - coach and coach - man , with two horses , a " guarded Lackey , " 78 Compare the objections to proper wifely tasks in ...
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