In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 192
... evil power over nature , is reduced to a comic figure by her association with the absurd Sir Thopas . Her name refers to the humorously depicted bawd in Ovid's Elegy ( Book I , viii ) , and if , in Lyly , she were really ' bad ' the ...
... evil power over nature , is reduced to a comic figure by her association with the absurd Sir Thopas . Her name refers to the humorously depicted bawd in Ovid's Elegy ( Book I , viii ) , and if , in Lyly , she were really ' bad ' the ...
Page 205
... evil and carries Hell with him ; he symbolically enacts Mother Sawyer's revenge , as well as 66 the self - destructive aggression of Frank Thornley . " But the 62 Briggs , Paul Hecate's Team , p . 94 . 63 64 65 66 Scot , Discoverie ...
... evil and carries Hell with him ; he symbolically enacts Mother Sawyer's revenge , as well as 66 the self - destructive aggression of Frank Thornley . " But the 62 Briggs , Paul Hecate's Team , p . 94 . 63 64 65 66 Scot , Discoverie ...
Page 206
... evil forces to use their victims " doggedly , not divellishly " ( V.1.109 ) : this might produce some discomfort , but it makes the Devil rather an ass . Cuddy's comic experiences make Sawyer , by contrast , a pathetic figure . The dog ...
... evil forces to use their victims " doggedly , not divellishly " ( V.1.109 ) : this might produce some discomfort , but it makes the Devil rather an ass . Cuddy's comic experiences make Sawyer , by contrast , a pathetic figure . The dog ...
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