In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... shrewishness , of usurpation in either domestic or public / political terms ( see also , p . 238 below ) . 21 Traditional shrews : shrewishness as disorder and madness In John the Husband ( ca. 1533 ) , a fabliau - like farce which ...
... shrewishness , of usurpation in either domestic or public / political terms ( see also , p . 238 below ) . 21 Traditional shrews : shrewishness as disorder and madness In John the Husband ( ca. 1533 ) , a fabliau - like farce which ...
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... shrewishness , adultery and witchcraft . This would 43 44 44 In 1572 a corps of women helped the Haarlem garrison withstand a Spanish seige for six months . See John Laffin , Women in Battle ( 1967 ) , p . 24 . The difficulty in ...
... shrewishness , adultery and witchcraft . This would 43 44 44 In 1572 a corps of women helped the Haarlem garrison withstand a Spanish seige for six months . See John Laffin , Women in Battle ( 1967 ) , p . 24 . The difficulty in ...
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... shrewishness as a kind of 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 ...
... shrewishness as a kind of 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 ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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