In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 1 |
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... words , and words truth , and truth boldness . " 43 Her reproof to Tyse few , whom he punningly condemns her whole sex- " She is a woman , that is , she can lie " ( V.3.133 ) is crucial : " turn not a man of time , to make all ill ...
... words , and words truth , and truth boldness . " 43 Her reproof to Tyse few , whom he punningly condemns her whole sex- " She is a woman , that is , she can lie " ( V.3.133 ) is crucial : " turn not a man of time , to make all ill ...
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... word and in the culminating ' advice ' - " forget not but to call me Aunt still ; / Take heed of that , it may be mark'd in time else " ( II.1.191 ) . Exploiting conventional precepts her vow of secrecy to Isabella's mother must be ...
... word and in the culminating ' advice ' - " forget not but to call me Aunt still ; / Take heed of that , it may be mark'd in time else " ( II.1.191 ) . Exploiting conventional precepts her vow of secrecy to Isabella's mother must be ...
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... word . Adriana is , certainly , permitted some valid complaints - for example her question , " Why should their liberty than ours be more ? " ( II.1.10 ) --and can put a case for the " oneness " of wife and husband which should stand as ...
... word . Adriana is , certainly , permitted some valid complaints - for example her question , " Why should their liberty than ours be more ? " ( II.1.10 ) --and can put a case for the " oneness " of wife and husband which should stand as ...
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THE WORLD OF THE BROTHEL | 19 |
Courtesans | 41 |
SHREWS AND CITIZENS WIVES | 74 |
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