In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... satiric perspective such references help to confirm the debase- ment of Troilus , Cressida and Helen . Greek attitudes also help define Helen . Hector claimed honour as an absolute standard ; to Achilles and Ulysses honour , like beauty ...
... satiric perspective such references help to confirm the debase- ment of Troilus , Cressida and Helen . Greek attitudes also help define Helen . Hector claimed honour as an absolute standard ; to Achilles and Ulysses honour , like beauty ...
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... satiric as well as political , but he evinces more interest in individual women than do , for instance , Jonson and Marston , both of whom often create female characters lacking in credibility because they become submerged in the satiric ...
... satiric as well as political , but he evinces more interest in individual women than do , for instance , Jonson and Marston , both of whom often create female characters lacking in credibility because they become submerged in the satiric ...
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... satiric plays by Jonson , Marston and Middleton . 1968 . 1968 . Gill , Roma . " Introduction , " Middleton , Women Beware Women . Granville - Barker , H. Prefaces to Shakespeare . 4 vols . 1930 ; illustrated edition with notes by M. St ...
... satiric plays by Jonson , Marston and Middleton . 1968 . 1968 . Gill , Roma . " Introduction , " Middleton , Women Beware Women . Granville - Barker , H. Prefaces to Shakespeare . 4 vols . 1930 ; illustrated edition with notes by M. St ...
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