In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... Troy . ' The story of the first Troy began , in any case , before Helen became the promised prize . " Iove's unmooved sentence and foredoome " sealed Troy's fate either because Ate , " at Dame Tellus ' suit , " brought the apple to the ...
... Troy . ' The story of the first Troy began , in any case , before Helen became the promised prize . " Iove's unmooved sentence and foredoome " sealed Troy's fate either because Ate , " at Dame Tellus ' suit , " brought the apple to the ...
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... Troy is a festive affair , providing mutual enjoyment . George Sandys , often less moralistic than other writers ... Troy , pp . 167-168 . 20 John Lydgate , Troy Book , Bk . II , 4074 , 4060-61 ( here Helen blames Necessity ) . 21 In ...
... Troy is a festive affair , providing mutual enjoyment . George Sandys , often less moralistic than other writers ... Troy , pp . 167-168 . 20 John Lydgate , Troy Book , Bk . II , 4074 , 4060-61 ( here Helen blames Necessity ) . 21 In ...
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... Troy 26 25 story , " and Paris and Helen become the frivolous Types of Adultery , praised only by discredited characters like Clytemnestra and Egisthus , for example , in Pickering's Horestes ( 1567 ) . The acceptable courtoisie of the ...
... Troy 26 25 story , " and Paris and Helen become the frivolous Types of Adultery , praised only by discredited characters like Clytemnestra and Egisthus , for example , in Pickering's Horestes ( 1567 ) . The acceptable courtoisie of the ...
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