In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... situation becomes an image of the irreconcilable demands of reason and passion . Chapman depicts adultery as the out- ward manifestation of dislocation between convention and natural desires : the conflict between conscience and ...
... situation becomes an image of the irreconcilable demands of reason and passion . Chapman depicts adultery as the out- ward manifestation of dislocation between convention and natural desires : the conflict between conscience and ...
Page 152
... situations ; even her claim to ' honour ' may , credibly , be her ambition recognising the King's declining power . Although we may be intended to consider that inflated sentiments 39 are heroic , Evadne's incongruously vengeful ...
... situations ; even her claim to ' honour ' may , credibly , be her ambition recognising the King's declining power . Although we may be intended to consider that inflated sentiments 39 are heroic , Evadne's incongruously vengeful ...
Page 153
... situation to the women and their realisation of sexual maturity . Maturity ( not necessarily signifying deterioration ) is represented as involving knowledge and experience , and dramatists can now suggest that a ' fall'— into knowledge ...
... situation to the women and their realisation of sexual maturity . Maturity ( not necessarily signifying deterioration ) is represented as involving knowledge and experience , and dramatists can now suggest that a ' fall'— into knowledge ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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