In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... considered a devilish presence , conjured up as Faustus conjures Mephistophiles : he embodies latent evil and carries Hell with him ; he symbolically enacts Mother Sawyer's revenge , as well as 66 the self - destructive aggression of ...
... considered a devilish presence , conjured up as Faustus conjures Mephistophiles : he embodies latent evil and carries Hell with him ; he symbolically enacts Mother Sawyer's revenge , as well as 66 the self - destructive aggression of ...
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... considered as spiritual . " Machiavellian " tendencies are , in the plays , sometimes translated into hedonism — to care about the body is to take pride in it , so women's frivolous concern with fashion ( associated with middle - class ...
... considered as spiritual . " Machiavellian " tendencies are , in the plays , sometimes translated into hedonism — to care about the body is to take pride in it , so women's frivolous concern with fashion ( associated with middle - class ...
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... considered Menelaus foolish to leave Helen alone with Paris : " Helen is blamelesse , so is Paris too , / And did what thou , or I my selfe would doo . " As Venus ' knight , Paris dares anything to possess beauty , claiming that rape ...
... considered Menelaus foolish to leave Helen alone with Paris : " Helen is blamelesse , so is Paris too , / And did what thou , or I my selfe would doo . " As Venus ' knight , Paris dares anything to possess beauty , claiming that rape ...
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