In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 261
... characters , perfectly suitable for romance ( and masque ) , incredible as dramatic characters . Shakespare's Volumnia is , of course , an exception to 261 Outside British 'history' bad political women are rather ...
... characters , perfectly suitable for romance ( and masque ) , incredible as dramatic characters . Shakespare's Volumnia is , of course , an exception to 261 Outside British 'history' bad political women are rather ...
Page 340
... characters , admirable for , if nothing else , their strength of will . The patterns within which Webster sets his characters are satiric as well as political , but he evinces more interest in individual women than do , for instance ...
... characters , admirable for , if nothing else , their strength of will . The patterns within which Webster sets his characters are satiric as well as political , but he evinces more interest in individual women than do , for instance ...
Page 346
... characters in the drama would be to overlook the dramatic function of women's roles and to disregard some of the interesting subtleties in the develop- ment of particular character - types . 22 See , e.g. , L. G. Wright , Middle - Class ...
... characters in the drama would be to overlook the dramatic function of women's roles and to disregard some of the interesting subtleties in the develop- ment of particular character - types . 22 See , e.g. , L. G. Wright , Middle - Class ...
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