In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 190
... conventional views of women . In many ways her characterisation consists of an amalgamation of the traits of conventionally bad women but the authors make them all virtues . Moll will not marry until all men are true , and remains ...
... conventional views of women . In many ways her characterisation consists of an amalgamation of the traits of conventionally bad women but the authors make them all virtues . Moll will not marry until all men are true , and remains ...
Page 265
... conventional wish for masculinity less ' disorderly ' -wronged women . are shown here to be as capable as men of effecting just revenge . Revenge is the private sphere of action ; only one play of these years involves a woman who is ...
... conventional wish for masculinity less ' disorderly ' -wronged women . are shown here to be as capable as men of effecting just revenge . Revenge is the private sphere of action ; only one play of these years involves a woman who is ...
Page 326
... conventional complaint of a woman left sexually unsatisfied combines with the sense that Antony's death makes all men " boys " ; and Cleopatra's human weakness is perfectly integrated with her semi - divinity and dramatic self ...
... conventional complaint of a woman left sexually unsatisfied combines with the sense that Antony's death makes all men " boys " ; and Cleopatra's human weakness is perfectly integrated with her semi - divinity and dramatic self ...
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