In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... remains an issue , but standards are more relative " No marvel then times should so stretch and turn " ( IV.4.59 ) . * * 82 83 As in , e.g. , Eastward Ho , Chaste Maid in Cheapside , City Madam , see Chapter II below . Anne Righter ...
... remains an issue , but standards are more relative " No marvel then times should so stretch and turn " ( IV.4.59 ) . * * 82 83 As in , e.g. , Eastward Ho , Chaste Maid in Cheapside , City Madam , see Chapter II below . Anne Righter ...
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... A Ballet Shewing How a Dumb Wyff was Maid to Speik , " in Select Remains of the Ancient and Romance Poetry of Scotland ( Edinburgh , 1885 ) . There are several versions of this tale . 11 wife and her dangerous resistance is ' defused ' 77.
... A Ballet Shewing How a Dumb Wyff was Maid to Speik , " in Select Remains of the Ancient and Romance Poetry of Scotland ( Edinburgh , 1885 ) . There are several versions of this tale . 11 wife and her dangerous resistance is ' defused ' 77.
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... remains bad ( and deserved ) ; her typicality remains undramatic . In The Maid's Tragedy ( King's Men , 1611 ) Evadne is most credible when most typically ' bad ' . When the king gives Amintor the opportunity to marry Evadne ( the ...
... remains bad ( and deserved ) ; her typicality remains undramatic . In The Maid's Tragedy ( King's Men , 1611 ) Evadne is most credible when most typically ' bad ' . When the king gives Amintor the opportunity to marry Evadne ( the ...
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THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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