In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... 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 ) ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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