In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... thee ... I misse lifes Comfort when I misse thee " ( IV.3.93ff . ) underlines the play's point - that in this society things are more reliable , and therefore more important than people . The Courtesan , though selfishly determined to ...
... thee ... I misse lifes Comfort when I misse thee " ( IV.3.93ff . ) underlines the play's point - that in this society things are more reliable , and therefore more important than people . The Courtesan , though selfishly determined to ...
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... thee still as stone , beginnar of blundar ! I shall bete thee bak and bone , and breke all in sonder . 6 4 5 6 Dusinberre , Attitudes , pp . 119 & 225 suggests that shrewishness ( and adultery ) may be women's ways of rebelling against ...
... thee still as stone , beginnar of blundar ! I shall bete thee bak and bone , and breke all in sonder . 6 4 5 6 Dusinberre , Attitudes , pp . 119 & 225 suggests that shrewishness ( and adultery ) may be women's ways of rebelling against ...
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... thee I had neuer beene strumpet . What can not oathes and protestations doe , When men haue opportunity to woe . ( V.2529f . ) 16 11 Arden , " reporting , moralizing , ... titillating , ' is drama- tically more convincing and ...
... thee I had neuer beene strumpet . What can not oathes and protestations doe , When men haue opportunity to woe . ( V.2529f . ) 16 11 Arden , " reporting , moralizing , ... titillating , ' is drama- tically more convincing and ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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