In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... rule over their captives is criticised by Tybalt , a castaway with " typically " masculine charms : ..your ... rules . Subsequently , she has very little part in the play . It is as though the authors 184.
... rule over their captives is criticised by Tybalt , a castaway with " typically " masculine charms : ..your ... rules . Subsequently , she has very little part in the play . It is as though the authors 184.
Page 291
... rules " her husband , making him " effeminate " ; she inspires the lover , but 41 also inspires ambitious Suffolk and immoral Falstaff . When Greene's Fair Maid of Fressingfield says , " Shall I be Hellen in my forward fates / As I am ...
... rules " her husband , making him " effeminate " ; she inspires the lover , but 41 also inspires ambitious Suffolk and immoral Falstaff . When Greene's Fair Maid of Fressingfield says , " Shall I be Hellen in my forward fates / As I am ...
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... rules which are paid lip - service but which in Helen's disordered world are dissolved by Time . That women inspire men to fight is a ' rule ' imposed upon Helen and Cressida by the very fact of their being fought over . Troilus ...
... rules which are paid lip - service but which in Helen's disordered world are dissolved by Time . That women inspire men to fight is a ' rule ' imposed upon Helen and Cressida by the very fact of their being fought over . Troilus ...
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