In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... moral ambiguity of the revenger's position , could be deliberately played upon . Women , in that pattern , are ... morally ; and it is unclear whether she should be condemned for loving Horatio " illicitly , " or whether their love is ...
... moral ambiguity of the revenger's position , could be deliberately played upon . Women , in that pattern , are ... morally ; and it is unclear whether she should be condemned for loving Horatio " illicitly , " or whether their love is ...
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... moral ' than this , though , and Helen's being the Type of Vanity becomes even more obvious . The Marlovian echo ... Morality exemplar showing the " fayre ones " of the audience " what a little time can doe " to beauty's flower ...
... moral ' than this , though , and Helen's being the Type of Vanity becomes even more obvious . The Marlovian echo ... Morality exemplar showing the " fayre ones " of the audience " what a little time can doe " to beauty's flower ...
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... moral judgement . The only way in which one could credit the Roman view ( and that , finally , is shaken to the extent that Caesar appreciates the " show " before him ) , would be to contend that Shakespeare stresses images of playing ...
... moral judgement . The only way in which one could credit the Roman view ( and that , finally , is shaken to the extent that Caesar appreciates the " show " before him ) , would be to contend that Shakespeare stresses images of playing ...
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