In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 31
Page 257
... Christian , promotes a Christian concept of returning good for evil ; the evil characters , insisting on reason ( " free minds " ) and inclined to violence , are antithetical to the play's implicit Christian values . In Macbeth ( 1605/6 ) ...
... Christian , promotes a Christian concept of returning good for evil ; the evil characters , insisting on reason ( " free minds " ) and inclined to violence , are antithetical to the play's implicit Christian values . In Macbeth ( 1605/6 ) ...
Page 260
... Christian context , redolent of ideas of altruism ( nobility for others ) this makes her " less than woman . " Seen from outside the Christian order she is heroic ; seen from within it she must be associated with what Christianity ...
... Christian context , redolent of ideas of altruism ( nobility for others ) this makes her " less than woman . " Seen from outside the Christian order she is heroic ; seen from within it she must be associated with what Christianity ...
Page 292
... Christian tradition is unfailingly attracted to what pagan hedonism has provided the " most beautiful " ; Western Christian moralities create their own ambiguity by trying to reconcile this with " most virtuous . " Even in a comic ...
... Christian tradition is unfailingly attracted to what pagan hedonism has provided the " most beautiful " ; Western Christian moralities create their own ambiguity by trying to reconcile this with " most virtuous . " Even in a comic ...
Common terms and phrases
action Amazon ambiguity Antony appears associated attitude beauty becomes Bowers Caesar called Cambridge cause characters Christian claim Cleopatra comedy comic concerned condemned considered conventional created Cressida dangerous death defined depicted desire drama effect Elizabeth Elizabethan emphasises encouraged England English evil female final Fletcher George Helen helps Henry Heywood honour husband idea imagination important individual instance John kill kind King Lady Macbeth less lover lust Macbeth male marriage Mary merely Middleton moral murder nature Noble Oxford Paris partly pattern perhaps play political potentially presented provides punished Queen relation remains Renaissance represented revenge Robert role Roman rprt rule satiric scene seems seen sense sexual Shakespeare shows Sisters social society stage Studies suggests Thomas tradition Tragedy translated Troilus Troy ultimately virtuous Waller whore wife witchcraft witches woman women York