In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... faith in the Spenserian concept under- lying the restoration of order when Britomart kills the ' real ' Amazon and reinstates male authority - it liberates the women and .6 makes them " grateful . " " Undecent and manly apparel " 7 ...
... faith in the Spenserian concept under- lying the restoration of order when Britomart kills the ' real ' Amazon and reinstates male authority - it liberates the women and .6 makes them " grateful . " " Undecent and manly apparel " 7 ...
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... faith melteth into blood " . 26 " beauty , " " witch , " " blood " all have evil associations- beauty , manipulated by witchcraft , turns rational decency into venery . This suggests a change in attitude : in Lyly , human beings had a ...
... faith melteth into blood " . 26 " beauty , " " witch , " " blood " all have evil associations- beauty , manipulated by witchcraft , turns rational decency into venery . This suggests a change in attitude : in Lyly , human beings had a ...
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... Faith in the Age of Elizabeth . Ph.D. Thesis , University of Cambridge 1966 . Dusinberre , Juliet ( see also Bibliography , iii ) . Attitudes to Women in Jacobean Drama . Ph.D. Thesis , University of Warwick 1969 . Trefethen , Florence ...
... Faith in the Age of Elizabeth . Ph.D. Thesis , University of Cambridge 1966 . Dusinberre , Juliet ( see also Bibliography , iii ) . Attitudes to Women in Jacobean Drama . Ph.D. Thesis , University of Warwick 1969 . Trefethen , Florence ...
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