In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... Women ; Sources for the Satiric View of the Court Lady in English Drama , " in Renaissance and Modern Essays , ed . G. R. Hibbard ( 1966 ) , 35-50 ; D. W. Harding , " Women's Fantasy of Manhood : A Shakesperian Theme , " Sh . XX ( 1969 ) ...
... Women ; Sources for the Satiric View of the Court Lady in English Drama , " in Renaissance and Modern Essays , ed . G. R. Hibbard ( 1966 ) , 35-50 ; D. W. Harding , " Women's Fantasy of Manhood : A Shakesperian Theme , " Sh . XX ( 1969 ) ...
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... women in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama can be seen in groupings which , once established , are self - evident ... Women Beware Women , Livia says to Isabella , O my Wench ! Nothing o'rthrows our Sex but indiscretion , We might do well ...
... women in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama can be seen in groupings which , once established , are self - evident ... Women Beware Women , Livia says to Isabella , O my Wench ! Nothing o'rthrows our Sex but indiscretion , We might do well ...
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... woman was of someone inactive and docile , women had to be doubly discreet about taking positive action . And extreme discre- tion , if it were discovered , could help reinforce general charges of women's duplicity . Since a woman's ...
... woman was of someone inactive and docile , women had to be doubly discreet about taking positive action . And extreme discre- tion , if it were discovered , could help reinforce general charges of women's duplicity . Since a woman's ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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