In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... Middleton claimed that the 16 poet's job was to make things better than he found them . Despite romantic sentimentality , The Roaring Girl makes its point about Amazonian women eccentricity does not make a woman bad . Like other Amazons ...
... Middleton claimed that the 16 poet's job was to make things better than he found them . Despite romantic sentimentality , The Roaring Girl makes its point about Amazonian women eccentricity does not make a woman bad . Like other Amazons ...
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... Middleton , Thomas . The Works of Thomas Middleton . 8 vols . 1885-1886 . Ed . A. H. Bullen . Peele , George . The Life and Works of George Peele . Ed . C. Prouty . 3 vols . New Haven , 1952-1970 . Shakespeare , William . The Complete ...
... Middleton , Thomas . The Works of Thomas Middleton . 8 vols . 1885-1886 . Ed . A. H. Bullen . Peele , George . The Life and Works of George Peele . Ed . C. Prouty . 3 vols . New Haven , 1952-1970 . Shakespeare , William . The Complete ...
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... Middleton . 1968 . 1968 . Gill , Roma . " Introduction , " Middleton , Women Beware Women . Granville - Barker , H. Prefaces to Shakespeare . 4 vols . 1930 ; illustrated edition with notes by M. St. Clare Byrne , 1963 . Graves , T. S. ...
... Middleton . 1968 . 1968 . Gill , Roma . " Introduction , " Middleton , Women Beware Women . Granville - Barker , H. Prefaces to Shakespeare . 4 vols . 1930 ; illustrated edition with notes by M. St. Clare Byrne , 1963 . Graves , T. S. ...
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