In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... Heywood used accounts of several trials . One of these ( the 1612 trial of Demdike , Chattox and 70 others ) was ... Heywood's skepticism in handling this material seems justified . 71 Mrs. Generous's farcical riding of Robin , and his ...
... Heywood used accounts of several trials . One of these ( the 1612 trial of Demdike , Chattox and 70 others ) was ... Heywood's skepticism in handling this material seems justified . 71 Mrs. Generous's farcical riding of Robin , and his ...
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... Heywood's audiences : no longer a troublingly ambiguous ( if debased ) semi - divine figure , she belongs here to the ' city - wife ' tradition and in Part II of the play , characterisation strongly suggests that of tragic bourgeois ...
... Heywood's audiences : no longer a troublingly ambiguous ( if debased ) semi - divine figure , she belongs here to the ' city - wife ' tradition and in Part II of the play , characterisation strongly suggests that of tragic bourgeois ...
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... Heywood , John . John the Husband ( ca. 1520 ) . Ed . J. S. Farmer , The Dramatic Writings of John Heywood . 1905 ; rprt . New York , 1966. ( II ) Heywood , Thomas . Edward IV , Parts I and II ( 1599 ) . Works , Vol . I. ( II , III ) A ...
... Heywood , John . John the Husband ( ca. 1520 ) . Ed . J. S. Farmer , The Dramatic Writings of John Heywood . 1905 ; rprt . New York , 1966. ( II ) Heywood , Thomas . Edward IV , Parts I and II ( 1599 ) . Works , Vol . I. ( II , III ) A ...
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