In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 182
... episodes in the drama , offers one explanation of why love is the touchstone of most Amazonian tales : Theseus ravished Antiope " that was an Amazon , and therefore had gotten the habite of stoutnes above the nature of a woman ; but ...
... episodes in the drama , offers one explanation of why love is the touchstone of most Amazonian tales : Theseus ravished Antiope " that was an Amazon , and therefore had gotten the habite of stoutnes above the nature of a woman ; but ...
Page 198
... episode a neat reversal of the habitual way in which shrews were treated " bridled " either literally in devices such as a branks , or at least made to " bridle " their " churlishness " as Tom Tyler's wife was ( see p . 82 above ) ...
... episode a neat reversal of the habitual way in which shrews were treated " bridled " either literally in devices such as a branks , or at least made to " bridle " their " churlishness " as Tom Tyler's wife was ( see p . 82 above ) ...
Page 246
... episode is used also in Nobody and Somebody . Mirror account of Eleanor's story ( 28 : 34ff . and 78ff . ) puts more emphasis on pride . Chronicle accounts suggest that Eleanor did intend Henry's death . witchcraft enables Margaret to ...
... episode is used also in Nobody and Somebody . Mirror account of Eleanor's story ( 28 : 34ff . and 78ff . ) puts more emphasis on pride . Chronicle accounts suggest that Eleanor did intend Henry's death . witchcraft enables Margaret to ...
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