In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... potentially dangerous forces of nature in order to bring about " unnatural " states . Both freaks of nature ( at the same time as they represent extremes of ' natural ' female qualities ) , they are , conceptually , the epitome of ...
... potentially dangerous forces of nature in order to bring about " unnatural " states . Both freaks of nature ( at the same time as they represent extremes of ' natural ' female qualities ) , they are , conceptually , the epitome of ...
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... potentially virtuous and brave ( though she also sensibly says that she avoids marriage because she likes the whole bed to herself ) . She challenges and opposes conventional views of women . In many ways her characterisation consists ...
... potentially virtuous and brave ( though she also sensibly says that she avoids marriage because she likes the whole bed to herself ) . She challenges and opposes conventional views of women . In many ways her characterisation consists ...
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... potentially heroic into a comic turn , a strumpet's fool . Plutarch observes that " Cleopatra was to give Fulvia thankes for that she had taught Antonius ... obedience to women " ( p . 11 ) . But according to Ovid and Lucian , Hercules ...
... potentially heroic into a comic turn , a strumpet's fool . Plutarch observes that " Cleopatra was to give Fulvia thankes for that she had taught Antonius ... obedience to women " ( p . 11 ) . But according to Ovid and Lucian , Hercules ...
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