In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 193
... ( Prince's Men , 1612 ) and Middleton's The Witch ( 1615 ) both employ the witch figure for decorative or spectacular effects . In Armin's play a witch helps the English to fight the brave Welsh by conjuring a man - eating serpent ; but ...
... ( Prince's Men , 1612 ) and Middleton's The Witch ( 1615 ) both employ the witch figure for decorative or spectacular effects . In Armin's play a witch helps the English to fight the brave Welsh by conjuring a man - eating serpent ; but ...
Page 205
... ( Prince's Men , 1621 ) -the " soberest and 62 most factual of all the witch plays , " Briggs calls it - illus- trates Scot's idea of the kind of women believed to be witches , and of how witchcraft came to be credited by both victim and ...
... ( Prince's Men , 1621 ) -the " soberest and 62 most factual of all the witch plays , " Briggs calls it - illus- trates Scot's idea of the kind of women believed to be witches , and of how witchcraft came to be credited by both victim and ...
Page 249
... Prince Henry in Look About You ( see p . 245 above ) ; and Goneril's attitude to Lear as a political threat . See Inga - Stina Ewbank , " The Fiend - like Queen : a Note on ' Macbeth ' and Seneca's ' Medea ' , " Shakespeare Survey 19 ...
... Prince Henry in Look About You ( see p . 245 above ) ; and Goneril's attitude to Lear as a political threat . See Inga - Stina Ewbank , " The Fiend - like Queen : a Note on ' Macbeth ' and Seneca's ' Medea ' , " Shakespeare Survey 19 ...
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