In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... presented castigation for cruelty before they die with Stoic propriety . 8 9 Marina Warner , Joan of Arc : The Image of Female Heroism ( 1981 ; rprt . Vintage Books , 1982 ) , 115 and 140 . See also , Leslie Fiedler , The Stranger in ...
... presented castigation for cruelty before they die with Stoic propriety . 8 9 Marina Warner , Joan of Arc : The Image of Female Heroism ( 1981 ; rprt . Vintage Books , 1982 ) , 115 and 140 . See also , Leslie Fiedler , The Stranger in ...
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... presented with a distorted version of Lear's situation , suggesting that Fletcher wanted partly to picture an old order deservedly being replaced by the simple orthodox piety 53 of the younger generation . Brunhalt demonstrates her ...
... presented with a distorted version of Lear's situation , suggesting that Fletcher wanted partly to picture an old order deservedly being replaced by the simple orthodox piety 53 of the younger generation . Brunhalt demonstrates her ...
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... presentation of ' bad ' women . They are so obviously wicked , in many late Jacobean and in Caroline plays , that the playwrights might justifiably have claimed that since vice was presented as vicious , drama taught people to shun it ...
... presentation of ' bad ' women . They are so obviously wicked , in many late Jacobean and in Caroline plays , that the playwrights might justifiably have claimed that since vice was presented as vicious , drama taught people to shun it ...
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