In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... play , beyond anything moral at all . The Sisters play a part in Macbeth's dangerous feelings of " security , " 45 and the play's atmosphere , as Jane Jack indicates , is steeped in a sense of an attack on Divine Right , of the Latter ...
... play , beyond anything moral at all . The Sisters play a part in Macbeth's dangerous feelings of " security , " 45 and the play's atmosphere , as Jane Jack indicates , is steeped in a sense of an attack on Divine Right , of the Latter ...
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... play , The Noble Spanish Soldier is sub - titled " A contract broken , justly revenged . " In very few cases , however , does blame fall squarely on the male vow - breaker , and in most instances the play depicts the second woman as ...
... play , The Noble Spanish Soldier is sub - titled " A contract broken , justly revenged . " In very few cases , however , does blame fall squarely on the male vow - breaker , and in most instances the play depicts the second woman as ...
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... play is an attack on Prynne , as had been Shirley's Commendatory verse on Ford's Love's Sacrifice ( printed in 1633 ) —a play which is almost a primer of Platonism , and not a very good play ( see above , p . 177 ) . Neo - Platonism ...
... play is an attack on Prynne , as had been Shirley's Commendatory verse on Ford's Love's Sacrifice ( printed in 1633 ) —a play which is almost a primer of Platonism , and not a very good play ( see above , p . 177 ) . Neo - Platonism ...
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