In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... seen , as Elizabeth Janeway has shown us , in the " negative role " -that of witch ( Janeway , Man's World , pp . 137ff . ) . Thus the idea of witchcraft is ' accessible ' to us all . Ágain , adult men proclaim themselves " bewitched ...
... seen , as Elizabeth Janeway has shown us , in the " negative role " -that of witch ( Janeway , Man's World , pp . 137ff . ) . Thus the idea of witchcraft is ' accessible ' to us all . Ágain , adult men proclaim themselves " bewitched ...
Page 241
... seen . Queen Videna's argument against transposing the " course of governance " when Gorboduc divides his kingdom seems entirely justifiable ; in a system based at all levels on primogeniture , disinheriting the eldest son is personally ...
... seen . Queen Videna's argument against transposing the " course of governance " when Gorboduc divides his kingdom seems entirely justifiable ; in a system based at all levels on primogeniture , disinheriting the eldest son is personally ...
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... Seen from outside the Christian order she is heroic ; seen from within it she must be associated with what Christianity defines as the Antagonist- she is " fiend - like . " The Weird Sisters metaphysically initiate action ; she does it ...
... Seen from outside the Christian order she is heroic ; seen from within it she must be associated with what Christianity defines as the Antagonist- she is " fiend - like . " The Weird Sisters metaphysically initiate action ; she does it ...
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