In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... hath a heart ' . " 2 While any political activity might elicit opposing responses , for a woman such activity was doubly difficult . At the beginning and at the end of her reign Elizabeth had trouble overcoming , or at least disarming ...
... hath a heart ' . " 2 While any political activity might elicit opposing responses , for a woman such activity was doubly difficult . At the beginning and at the end of her reign Elizabeth had trouble overcoming , or at least disarming ...
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... Hath beene the bellowes of seditious fire , Eyther through Iealious rage or mad desire.17 Elinor , opposing the patriarchal monarchy by exploiting her material power , incites Prince Henry not to call Henry father but treat him as a ...
... Hath beene the bellowes of seditious fire , Eyther through Iealious rage or mad desire.17 Elinor , opposing the patriarchal monarchy by exploiting her material power , incites Prince Henry not to call Henry father but treat him as a ...
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... Hath nodded him to her . He hath given his empire / Up to a whore " ( III.6.12 , 66f . ) . We have in these speeches a sense that what Caesar is criticising , is Lechery run riot and a ' hero ' continually in the tavern and wholly ...
... Hath nodded him to her . He hath given his empire / Up to a whore " ( III.6.12 , 66f . ) . We have in these speeches a sense that what Caesar is criticising , is Lechery run riot and a ' hero ' continually in the tavern and wholly ...
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