In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 192
... beauty is a witch / Against whose charms faith melteth into blood " . 26 " beauty , " " witch , " " blood " all have evil associations- beauty , manipulated by witchcraft , turns rational decency into venery . This suggests a change in ...
... beauty is a witch / Against whose charms faith melteth into blood " . 26 " beauty , " " witch , " " blood " all have evil associations- beauty , manipulated by witchcraft , turns rational decency into venery . This suggests a change in ...
Page 274
... beauty . This mere existence , however , though not essentially tragic ( as disobedience to a god is seen to be ) , caused disaster . Beauty is naturally desirable ; disaster is to be shunned ; and the image of Helen seems wholly ...
... beauty . This mere existence , however , though not essentially tragic ( as disobedience to a god is seen to be ) , caused disaster . Beauty is naturally desirable ; disaster is to be shunned ; and the image of Helen seems wholly ...
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... beauty is of the flesh , and she can therefore be treated as an exemplar of mortality . To Homer such beauty could not , finally , be hated ; to Ovid , Helen became pitiable- ... Helen cry'd When she beheld her wrincles in her Glasse ...
... beauty is of the flesh , and she can therefore be treated as an exemplar of mortality . To Homer such beauty could not , finally , be hated ; to Ovid , Helen became pitiable- ... Helen cry'd When she beheld her wrincles in her Glasse ...
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