In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... things , some good , most bad ; some saints , some sinners , " says Marston's Malcontent , who , in the fifth act , proceeds to find at least one saint and to rediscover his faith in humankind . Throughout the play , however ...
... things , some good , most bad ; some saints , some sinners , " says Marston's Malcontent , who , in the fifth act , proceeds to find at least one saint and to rediscover his faith in humankind . Throughout the play , however ...
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... things which citizens considered the worst sins became a way of blaming brothelry on those bourgeois " deformities " which appeared to increase the scope for bawdry - increased commerce , profit - making 77 and conspicuous consumption ...
... things which citizens considered the worst sins became a way of blaming brothelry on those bourgeois " deformities " which appeared to increase the scope for bawdry - increased commerce , profit - making 77 and conspicuous consumption ...
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... things that live must rot " ( IV.5.107-108 ) he is using the bawd's rhetoric - combining memento mori with carpe diem to exploit Pietro's miserable situation , until Pietro renounces the " world tricks " which made him " an excellent ...
... things that live must rot " ( IV.5.107-108 ) he is using the bawd's rhetoric - combining memento mori with carpe diem to exploit Pietro's miserable situation , until Pietro renounces the " world tricks " which made him " an excellent ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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