In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 197
... kind of medicine . In any case , general widespread ignorance about child- birth probably resulted in midwives being accused of having " occult " knowledge practising witchcraft . There were also some genuinely bad women - Anne Drury ...
... kind of medicine . In any case , general widespread ignorance about child- birth probably resulted in midwives being accused of having " occult " knowledge practising witchcraft . There were also some genuinely bad women - Anne Drury ...
Page 198
... kind of occurrence described in a contemporary pamphlet : Judith Philips , who had lived among gypsies , set up as a fortune - teller in Hampshire , being disenchanted with the " poor estate " of her husband , Pope . Claiming her ...
... kind of occurrence described in a contemporary pamphlet : Judith Philips , who had lived among gypsies , set up as a fortune - teller in Hampshire , being disenchanted with the " poor estate " of her husband , Pope . Claiming her ...
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... kind of love Volumnia seems able to feel . In Coriolanus , the life and health of the body politic are of primary importance , and it is to this that Volumnia is dedicated . Having " internalized " patriarchal values , she is the ...
... kind of love Volumnia seems able to feel . In Coriolanus , the life and health of the body politic are of primary importance , and it is to this that Volumnia is dedicated . Having " internalized " patriarchal values , she is the ...
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