In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... seems consistently frustrated because Anne is not wilful : reacting dully , she anticipates no sensual pleasure ... seem to emphasise the undramatic quality of the didacticism . 24 Dramatic truth as well as dramatic power seem to demand ...
... seems consistently frustrated because Anne is not wilful : reacting dully , she anticipates no sensual pleasure ... seem to emphasise the undramatic quality of the didacticism . 24 Dramatic truth as well as dramatic power seem to demand ...
Page 168
... seems to express a more comprehensive ethic . The Duke commends the self - defensive wit of her telling the Cardinal , " ' mongst all your virtues / I see not charity written " ( IV.3.50-51 ) . But even if played with over - acted ...
... seems to express a more comprehensive ethic . The Duke commends the self - defensive wit of her telling the Cardinal , " ' mongst all your virtues / I see not charity written " ( IV.3.50-51 ) . But even if played with over - acted ...
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... seems to cause disintegration of traditional dramatic forms . Too obtrusive for subsumption in any ' ordinary ' love tragedy , it insufficiently defines a new structure , and seems , also , to encourage moral confusion . It was , as ...
... seems to cause disintegration of traditional dramatic forms . Too obtrusive for subsumption in any ' ordinary ' love tragedy , it insufficiently defines a new structure , and seems , also , to encourage moral confusion . It was , as ...
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THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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