In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... concern are trivialized and , like city - wives concerned with physical comfort and appearance , Helen wishes only that she might have " trimm'd up her attire " before meeting Paris so that Troy , like Greece , might have known of her ...
... concern are trivialized and , like city - wives concerned with physical comfort and appearance , Helen wishes only that she might have " trimm'd up her attire " before meeting Paris so that Troy , like Greece , might have known of her ...
Page 346
... concerned , the words of Virginia Woolf , even taken out of context , seem to me sufficient : however amusing to the imagination , it has " no existence in fact . " As far as the stage is concerned , it must of course be true that any ...
... concerned , the words of Virginia Woolf , even taken out of context , seem to me sufficient : however amusing to the imagination , it has " no existence in fact . " As far as the stage is concerned , it must of course be true that any ...
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... concerned with the valuation and the reading , the performing and the teaching of English Renais- sance drama and as long as we teach it and perform it as part of western , and westernised , culture , we must value it — just so long ...
... concerned with the valuation and the reading , the performing and the teaching of English Renais- sance drama and as long as we teach it and perform it as part of western , and westernised , culture , we must value it — just so long ...
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