In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... associated with Turks and Moors , were popular villains for audiences whose political life was still inseparable from religion . Catherine de ' Medici , for example , was dedicated to ruling a Catholic France - a combination which made ...
... associated with Turks and Moors , were popular villains for audiences whose political life was still inseparable from religion . Catherine de ' Medici , for example , was dedicated to ruling a Catholic France - a combination which made ...
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... associated with Moors were represented as even more corrupt than Papists , and it seems clear that the tradition of the Saracen antagonist , the anti - Christ , was so old that drama which drew on this tradition could hardly avoid ...
... associated with Moors were represented as even more corrupt than Papists , and it seems clear that the tradition of the Saracen antagonist , the anti - Christ , was so old that drama which drew on this tradition could hardly avoid ...
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... associated with the fig leaf . This comprehensive image is suggested but not emphasised ; indeed , it is not vital ... associated with witchcraft and the moon ( itself associated with sterility and change fulness , but also with ...
... associated with the fig leaf . This comprehensive image is suggested but not emphasised ; indeed , it is not vital ... associated with witchcraft and the moon ( itself associated with sterility and change fulness , but also with ...
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