In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... provides the prototype of most Amazonian episodes in the drama , offers one explanation of why love is the touchstone of most Amazonian tales : Theseus ravished Antiope " that was an Amazon , and therefore had gotten the habite of ...
... provides the prototype of most Amazonian episodes in the drama , offers one explanation of why love is the touchstone of most Amazonian tales : Theseus ravished Antiope " that was an Amazon , and therefore had gotten the habite of ...
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... provides the " consolation " of the Virgin Mary , the passive vessel of salvation . Here are two separate images , linked by Christian belief and optimism , as well as by a particular view of the uses of women , and the Virgin Mary provides ...
... provides the " consolation " of the Virgin Mary , the passive vessel of salvation . Here are two separate images , linked by Christian belief and optimism , as well as by a particular view of the uses of women , and the Virgin Mary provides ...
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... provides men with a persistently evocative symbol , evocative because absolute beauty and absolute destruction can be expressed in terms of the individual life : mortal beauty is merely " our " flesh , destruction is merely death . A ...
... provides men with a persistently evocative symbol , evocative because absolute beauty and absolute destruction can be expressed in terms of the individual life : mortal beauty is merely " our " flesh , destruction is merely death . A ...
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