In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... depicts a woman of whom it might be said , as John Taylor said of the real Mary Frith , she kept " [ her ] fashion constantly . " 19 * % % 3. Witches Amazons are depicted as embodying an inversion of things which is unnatural because ...
... depicts a woman of whom it might be said , as John Taylor said of the real Mary Frith , she kept " [ her ] fashion constantly . " 19 * % % 3. Witches Amazons are depicted as embodying an inversion of things which is unnatural because ...
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... depicts women's vengeance in a context that , while seeming to have significance , is also dramatically powerful ... depicted as a reaction against a tyrant whose rule taints those around him and whose villainy is crystallised in his ...
... depicts women's vengeance in a context that , while seeming to have significance , is also dramatically powerful ... depicted as a reaction against a tyrant whose rule taints those around him and whose villainy is crystallised in his ...
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... depicted as women whose lust is synonymous with irreligion . Often too , such lust as depicted in almost ridiculous excess similar to that associated with sexually insatiable bourgeoises . In Thierry and Theodoret ( King's Men , ? 1617 ) ...
... depicted as women whose lust is synonymous with irreligion . Often too , such lust as depicted in almost ridiculous excess similar to that associated with sexually insatiable bourgeoises . In Thierry and Theodoret ( King's Men , ? 1617 ) ...
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