In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... idea that a woman with total and there- fore inexplicable power ( one's mother ) can , if she is not " loving , " be ... ideas about sexuality might also , in part , explain the association they made between whores and witches . A woman ...
... idea that a woman with total and there- fore inexplicable power ( one's mother ) can , if she is not " loving , " be ... ideas about sexuality might also , in part , explain the association they made between whores and witches . A woman ...
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... ideas about the real causes of the war , about the culpability of Paris ( and Priam , and Menelaus ) , about Helen's reactions to her situa- tion , about , ultimately , the value or virtue of beauty . The scope of these possibilities ...
... ideas about the real causes of the war , about the culpability of Paris ( and Priam , and Menelaus ) , about Helen's reactions to her situa- tion , about , ultimately , the value or virtue of beauty . The scope of these possibilities ...
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... ideas about chastity and spiritual equality , together with bourgeois needs for matrimonial equi- librium , as basic ... idea - for example , the stated Protestant ideal of chaste marriage . However important the idea might appear in ...
... ideas about chastity and spiritual equality , together with bourgeois needs for matrimonial equi- librium , as basic ... idea - for example , the stated Protestant ideal of chaste marriage . However important the idea might appear in ...
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