In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... noble because Penthesilea claims to have come to Troy " for loue of Hector " ( I.p.360 ) ; fighting and dying for this noble love redeems her 4 from charges of unnaturalness . " Women's vulnerability to sexual overtures ( the donnée ...
... noble because Penthesilea claims to have come to Troy " for loue of Hector " ( I.p.360 ) ; fighting and dying for this noble love redeems her 4 from charges of unnaturalness . " Women's vulnerability to sexual overtures ( the donnée ...
Page 187
... Noble Lady , is allowed to reject marriage and to embark on a life of religion - an alternative to the " normal " female role which is , very occasionally , permitted in the drama of the period . 11 10 11 * * * The Two Noble Ladies , ed ...
... Noble Lady , is allowed to reject marriage and to embark on a life of religion - an alternative to the " normal " female role which is , very occasionally , permitted in the drama of the period . 11 10 11 * * * The Two Noble Ladies , ed ...
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... Noble Curtizan : Conteining the lamentable complaint of Paulina , the Famous Roman Curtizan , sometimes Mes vnto the Great Cardinall Hypolito , of Est ( 1609 ) . Ed . Frederick Ouvry , 1868 . The Boke of Mayd Emlyn that had v ...
... Noble Curtizan : Conteining the lamentable complaint of Paulina , the Famous Roman Curtizan , sometimes Mes vnto the Great Cardinall Hypolito , of Est ( 1609 ) . Ed . Frederick Ouvry , 1868 . The Boke of Mayd Emlyn that had v ...
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