In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... wives , and thus give the wives further justification for rejecting marital control , Justiano ( cured of his jealousy by his wife's independence ) effects conjugal reconciliations . The wives , remaining technically chaste , feel ...
... wives , and thus give the wives further justification for rejecting marital control , Justiano ( cured of his jealousy by his wife's independence ) effects conjugal reconciliations . The wives , remaining technically chaste , feel ...
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... Wives Dramatists ' attitudes to female badness relate to their conceptions of socially destructive behaviour . Classically and clerically derived , misogynistic pronouncements both focus 61 increasingly on middle - class women ' whose ...
... Wives Dramatists ' attitudes to female badness relate to their conceptions of socially destructive behaviour . Classically and clerically derived , misogynistic pronouncements both focus 61 increasingly on middle - class women ' whose ...
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... wives comprise the major plot device , and the wives are censured for their callousness ) ; and partly a product of the middle - class pre- occupation with property ( see also , p . 53 above ) . Classical comedy's female characters were ...
... wives comprise the major plot device , and the wives are censured for their callousness ) ; and partly a product of the middle - class pre- occupation with property ( see also , p . 53 above ) . Classical comedy's female characters were ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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