In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... tion of a single dramatist . These include Caroline L. Cherry , The Most Unvaluedest Purchase : Women in the Plays of Thomas Middleton ( Salzburg , 1973 ) ; Leslie Fiedler's chapter on " The Woman as Stranger , " in The Stranger in ...
... tion of a single dramatist . These include Caroline L. Cherry , The Most Unvaluedest Purchase : Women in the Plays of Thomas Middleton ( Salzburg , 1973 ) ; Leslie Fiedler's chapter on " The Woman as Stranger , " in The Stranger in ...
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... tion for business ... the crying down of [ the daughter's ] value for a slight thing , together with every other circumstance , ... are inimitably excellent " ; but his wish that Fletcher had made 98 " Leucippe's baseness more odious ...
... tion for business ... the crying down of [ the daughter's ] value for a slight thing , together with every other circumstance , ... are inimitably excellent " ; but his wish that Fletcher had made 98 " Leucippe's baseness more odious ...
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... tion and a criticism of the pressures of a corrupt society . The play is as much a picture of adulterous marriage as it is one of bawdry , of the evils brought by the pursuit of riches , of courtly corruption , of the position of women ...
... tion and a criticism of the pressures of a corrupt society . The play is as much a picture of adulterous marriage as it is one of bawdry , of the evils brought by the pursuit of riches , of courtly corruption , of the position of women ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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