In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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Page 41
... represented as whorish , the whore herself sinks back into often very schematically- depicted worlds where she is , as in The Two Noble Ladies ( 1622 ) , Mrs. Caro , the Flesh . Courtesans For a whore to have actual social or political ...
... represented as whorish , the whore herself sinks back into often very schematically- depicted worlds where she is , as in The Two Noble Ladies ( 1622 ) , Mrs. Caro , the Flesh . Courtesans For a whore to have actual social or political ...
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... represented ; and some dramatists relate bawdry to power by developing the image of the court itself as a bawd . " Heating delicates , / Soft rest , sweet music , amorous masquerers " continually conspire against virtuous women who are ...
... represented ; and some dramatists relate bawdry to power by developing the image of the court itself as a bawd . " Heating delicates , / Soft rest , sweet music , amorous masquerers " continually conspire against virtuous women who are ...
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... represented as irrational and sexually motivated , and thus easily undermined when confronted by sexual opportunity ... represents female disorder which itself reflects the over- throw of national order . The Dutch women's Arminianism ...
... represented as irrational and sexually motivated , and thus easily undermined when confronted by sexual opportunity ... represents female disorder which itself reflects the over- throw of national order . The Dutch women's Arminianism ...
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