In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... cause becomes the Tudor cause . When disobedient women direct their violence against a king who is also their father , it represents the patriarchal fear of a more basic and more threatening anarchy - the kind of anarchy depicted in ...
... cause becomes the Tudor cause . When disobedient women direct their violence against a king who is also their father , it represents the patriarchal fear of a more basic and more threatening anarchy - the kind of anarchy depicted in ...
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... cause of the Trojan War . But her 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 ...
... cause of the Trojan War . But her 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 ...
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... cause upsets in national life , in his comedies the disturbances they cause are relatively unimportant and can therefore be righted by women who are entirely vindicated when they take the initiative because their doing so brings the ...
... cause upsets in national life , in his comedies the disturbances they cause are relatively unimportant and can therefore be righted by women who are entirely vindicated when they take the initiative because their doing so brings the ...
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