In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... encouraged condemnation of Popish ritual , of folk - beliefs in fairies and in the gentler aspects of the supernatural ( which Scot believed had 57 become harmless ) . Scot's Discoverie was probably less 58 60 influential than the ...
... encouraged condemnation of Popish ritual , of folk - beliefs in fairies and in the gentler aspects of the supernatural ( which Scot believed had 57 become harmless ) . Scot's Discoverie was probably less 58 60 influential than the ...
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... encouraged the creation of women's roles , and the incorporation into the drama of a satiric perspective ( especially in the boys ' drama , where women's parts were easier to fill ) , appears to have encouraged the creation of rather ...
... encouraged the creation of women's roles , and the incorporation into the drama of a satiric perspective ( especially in the boys ' drama , where women's parts were easier to fill ) , appears to have encouraged the creation of rather ...
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... encouraged thematic simplification in the drama , and is certainly a factor in the presentation of ' bad ' women . They are so obviously wicked , in many late Jacobean and in Caroline plays , that the playwrights might justifiably have ...
... encouraged thematic simplification in the drama , and is certainly a factor in the presentation of ' bad ' women . They are so obviously wicked , in many late Jacobean and in Caroline plays , that the playwrights might justifiably have ...
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