In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... Marlowe's Dr. Faustus . ( How far this particular ambivalence is to be ascribed to the titillating prospect of having a boy play the world's most beautiful woman in a play which must seem to have a Christian ' message ' is hard to say ...
... Marlowe's Dr. Faustus . ( How far this particular ambivalence is to be ascribed to the titillating prospect of having a boy play the world's most beautiful woman in a play which must seem to have a Christian ' message ' is hard to say ...
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... Marlowe's Dido is a sympathetic character in whom the Helen element represents the romantic anti- thesis to the ... Marlowe is trying to get our sympathy for Edward and , by association , for his favourite , Gaveston , too . ( Given the ...
... Marlowe's Dido is a sympathetic character in whom the Helen element represents the romantic anti- thesis to the ... Marlowe is trying to get our sympathy for Edward and , by association , for his favourite , Gaveston , too . ( Given the ...
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