In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... symbols of disordered , dis- ruptive action , but is never quite reduced to one static symbol . 20 As an activator of political discord , she is partly identified by association with the image of Helen : Suffolk first went to get her ...
... symbols of disordered , dis- ruptive action , but is never quite reduced to one static symbol . 20 As an activator of political discord , she is partly identified by association with the image of Helen : Suffolk first went to get her ...
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... symbol , an earthly good which represents a transcendent Idea . „ , 9 To the Elizabethans this was a powerful concept ; Paris ' judgement became a poetic conceit to express a male lover's valua- tion of his beloved , and , more ...
... symbol , an earthly good which represents a transcendent Idea . „ , 9 To the Elizabethans this was a powerful concept ; Paris ' judgement became a poetic conceit to express a male lover's valua- tion of his beloved , and , more ...
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... symbol letter ( see ' Key ' ) in the margin preceding a title indicates that a ' bad ' woman figures in that play . A Roman numeral , in parentheses , referring to the chapter ( s ) in which a play has been discussed , follows the ...
... symbol letter ( see ' Key ' ) in the margin preceding a title indicates that a ' bad ' woman figures in that play . A Roman numeral , in parentheses , referring to the chapter ( s ) in which a play has been discussed , follows the ...
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