In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... Court in 1606 she was charged with , and denied practising , bawdry . In 1611 she was charged in the Court of Arches with wearing " undecent and manly 14 apparel " ; during her penance at Paul's Cross she was , 12 13 15 Chamberlain ...
... Court in 1606 she was charged with , and denied practising , bawdry . In 1611 she was charged in the Court of Arches with wearing " undecent and manly 14 apparel " ; during her penance at Paul's Cross she was , 12 13 15 Chamberlain ...
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... court was much changed in the change of the king , for King Charles was temperate , chaste , and serious ; so that the fools and bawds , mimics and catamites of the former court , grew out of fasion.7 The less complex , more ' decent ...
... court was much changed in the change of the king , for King Charles was temperate , chaste , and serious ; so that the fools and bawds , mimics and catamites of the former court , grew out of fasion.7 The less complex , more ' decent ...
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... court ( and the Laudian church ) , so the dramatists used their art more particularly to support the neo - Platonic standards of the court . 8 It is , for example , pertinent that Shirley's well- constructed comedy The Bird in the Cage ...
... court ( and the Laudian church ) , so the dramatists used their art more particularly to support the neo - Platonic standards of the court . 8 It is , for example , pertinent that Shirley's well- constructed comedy The Bird in the Cage ...
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