In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 287
... Diomed's bitter condemnation and Paris ' perception that , chapman - like Diomed dispraises what he wants to buy , are both valid . And Menelaus , whose " deadly theme " Helen is ( IV.5.181 ) , deserves Thersites ' mockery - as 287.
... Diomed's bitter condemnation and Paris ' perception that , chapman - like Diomed dispraises what he wants to buy , are both valid . And Menelaus , whose " deadly theme " Helen is ( IV.5.181 ) , deserves Thersites ' mockery - as 287.
Page 289
... Menelaus is reproved for leaving Helen alone but her objections are couched in comic terms : to his claim that it is " honourable " to " take in kingdoms , " she replies , " What's that to Hellen , if shee'le have him stay ? " , and ...
... Menelaus is reproved for leaving Helen alone but her objections are couched in comic terms : to his claim that it is " honourable " to " take in kingdoms , " she replies , " What's that to Hellen , if shee'le have him stay ? " , and ...
Page 290
... Menelaus ' posterity . This implicitly ' sterilizes the fecundity associated with Venus and points , in some way , to the ' bad mother ' aspects of city - wives . In Part II of the play Helen is used to exemplify Vanity , and in this ...
... Menelaus ' posterity . This implicitly ' sterilizes the fecundity associated with Venus and points , in some way , to the ' bad mother ' aspects of city - wives . In Part II of the play Helen is used to exemplify Vanity , and in this ...
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