In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... less ' disorderly ' -wronged women . are shown here to be as capable as men of effecting just revenge . Revenge is the private sphere of action ; only one play of these years involves a woman who is publicly and politically active . The ...
... less ' disorderly ' -wronged women . are shown here to be as capable as men of effecting just revenge . Revenge is the private sphere of action ; only one play of these years involves a woman who is publicly and politically active . The ...
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... less than ambiguous . 2 3 . 4 Robert Burton , The Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ) , ed . Holbrook Jackson ( 1932 ; rprt . 1968 ) , III , Sec . 2 , Mem . 4 , p . 186 . See Erwin Panofsky , Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art ( 1965 ) ...
... less than ambiguous . 2 3 . 4 Robert Burton , The Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ) , ed . Holbrook Jackson ( 1932 ; rprt . 1968 ) , III , Sec . 2 , Mem . 4 , p . 186 . See Erwin Panofsky , Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art ( 1965 ) ...
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... less chaotic than they are in Shakespeare's version of the Trojan War . Helen , consistently preoccupied with her beauty and homage to it ( as she is in Ovidian tradition ) , is presented as a Type familiar to Heywood's audiences : no ...
... less chaotic than they are in Shakespeare's version of the Trojan War . Helen , consistently preoccupied with her beauty and homage to it ( as she is in Ovidian tradition ) , is presented as a Type familiar to Heywood's audiences : no ...
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