In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... punishment . When a whore mocks the bawd ( both are punished in Bridewell ) , it suggests that Dekker is disinclined to represent bawdry as anything but a series of offences and their appropriate punishment : burnt at fourteene , seuen ...
... punishment . When a whore mocks the bawd ( both are punished in Bridewell ) , it suggests that Dekker is disinclined to represent bawdry as anything but a series of offences and their appropriate punishment : burnt at fourteene , seuen ...
Page 95
... punishment- the cucking stool and the branks , and Vol . II , under " Cornutes " describes the way Skimmingtons were practised to ridicule and punish men as well as the wives who had cuckolded them , or quarrelled with them . See too ...
... punishment- the cucking stool and the branks , and Vol . II , under " Cornutes " describes the way Skimmingtons were practised to ridicule and punish men as well as the wives who had cuckolded them , or quarrelled with them . See too ...
Page 96
... punishment for the derogation of duty - for a whole society , as in Oldenbarnveldt , or at least for an individual man if he has failed to observe the rules concerning the proper control of women . b . The punishment of disorder in the ...
... punishment for the derogation of duty - for a whole society , as in Oldenbarnveldt , or at least for an individual man if he has failed to observe the rules concerning the proper control of women . b . The punishment of disorder in the ...
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