In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... comedy or tragedy . The archetypal pattern for such behaviour is , ultimately , Eve's active disobedience and its results . Christian tradition provides the " consolation " of the Virgin Mary , the passive vessel of salvation . Here are ...
... comedy or tragedy . The archetypal pattern for such behaviour is , ultimately , Eve's active disobedience and its results . Christian tradition provides the " consolation " of the Virgin Mary , the passive vessel of salvation . Here are ...
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... comedy where one man's actions do seem to cause social , national disruption - in Measure for Measure - the solution is engineered by a male protagonist : Mariana are essentially the Duke's instruments . Shakespeare's plays are largely ...
... comedy where one man's actions do seem to cause social , national disruption - in Measure for Measure - the solution is engineered by a male protagonist : Mariana are essentially the Duke's instruments . Shakespeare's plays are largely ...
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... Comedy of the Renaissance . The Hague , 1970 . Fiedler , Leslie . The Stranger in Shakespeare . 1973 . Fisch , Harold . " ' Antony and Cleopatra ' : the limits of mythology , " Shs 23 ( 1970 ) , 59-67 . Fitz , L. T. " Egyptian Queens ...
... Comedy of the Renaissance . The Hague , 1970 . Fiedler , Leslie . The Stranger in Shakespeare . 1973 . Fisch , Harold . " ' Antony and Cleopatra ' : the limits of mythology , " Shs 23 ( 1970 ) , 59-67 . Fitz , L. T. " Egyptian Queens ...
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