In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... bawd in Ovid's Elegy ( Book I , viii ) , and if , in Lyly , she were really ' bad ' the laws of fairy- 23 tale would have punished her in the end . 25 Lyly's benevolent Sybilla , in Sapho and Phao ( 1584 ) , advises Phao , " Vse no ...
... bawd in Ovid's Elegy ( Book I , viii ) , and if , in Lyly , she were really ' bad ' the laws of fairy- 23 tale would have punished her in the end . 25 Lyly's benevolent Sybilla , in Sapho and Phao ( 1584 ) , advises Phao , " Vse no ...
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... Bawd or Witch " ( IV.1.101ff . ) . This is , even if indirectly , a defence of Sawyer , in the context of the 67 68 Review in The Observer ( by Ivor Brown ) , 13 December 1936 , p . 15 . Macfarlane , pp . 168ff . , and Thomas , pp ...
... Bawd or Witch " ( IV.1.101ff . ) . This is , even if indirectly , a defence of Sawyer , in the context of the 67 68 Review in The Observer ( by Ivor Brown ) , 13 December 1936 , p . 15 . Macfarlane , pp . 168ff . , and Thomas , pp ...
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... bawd's advice in the plays of the English Renaissance . It is , perhaps , only in The Tamer Tam'd ( 1611 ) ( see above p . 107 ) that women , acting for themselves , claim an affinity with Aeneas , prepared to " seek out a land " which ...
... bawd's advice in the plays of the English Renaissance . It is , perhaps , only in The Tamer Tam'd ( 1611 ) ( see above p . 107 ) that women , acting for themselves , claim an affinity with Aeneas , prepared to " seek out a land " which ...
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