In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... pattern and its attendant moral assump- tions , which included the moral ambiguity of the revenger's position , could be deliberately played upon . Women , in that pattern , are always ambiguous , though condemnation is sometimes ...
... pattern and its attendant moral assump- tions , which included the moral ambiguity of the revenger's position , could be deliberately played upon . Women , in that pattern , are always ambiguous , though condemnation is sometimes ...
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... pattern " is thus that of The Spanish Tragedy or the " Bad Quarto " of Hamlet ; the dramatic pattern differs because the women are , at least , active characters . ) Davenant's Albovine , the tyrant's forcing Rhodolind to drink from her ...
... pattern " is thus that of The Spanish Tragedy or the " Bad Quarto " of Hamlet ; the dramatic pattern differs because the women are , at least , active characters . ) Davenant's Albovine , the tyrant's forcing Rhodolind to drink from her ...
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... A Warning - Piece against Shakespeare's Women , " Shakespeare Association Bulletin 15 ( 1940 ) , pp . 34-39 for Shakespeare's " one - sided " and simple view of women . to be come wives . 17 Given that basic pattern 342.
... A Warning - Piece against Shakespeare's Women , " Shakespeare Association Bulletin 15 ( 1940 ) , pp . 34-39 for Shakespeare's " one - sided " and simple view of women . to be come wives . 17 Given that basic pattern 342.
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