In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... taken very seriously indeed by the assessors of Rouen , who condemned her for it , and also by herself . It ranked of equal significance for her with the truth of her voices . When she found , after her recantation , that she had ...
... taken very seriously indeed by the assessors of Rouen , who condemned her for it , and also by herself . It ranked of equal significance for her with the truth of her voices . When she found , after her recantation , that she had ...
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... taken . " Her pride is so overweening as she seeks to " assume " 47 Roman deity that she is dramatically rather exciting , and may deliberately contrast with Poppaea who disclaims political ambition and , like any bourgeoise , wants to ...
... taken . " Her pride is so overweening as she seeks to " assume " 47 Roman deity that she is dramatically rather exciting , and may deliberately contrast with Poppaea who disclaims political ambition and , like any bourgeoise , wants to ...
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... taken with the beauties of each other ; and by their eyes contract a fatal affection . For the Platonists hold ... that the spirits of the lover passe through the eye into the spirits of the beloved ; which procures a desire of ...
... taken with the beauties of each other ; and by their eyes contract a fatal affection . For the Platonists hold ... that the spirits of the lover passe through the eye into the spirits of the beloved ; which procures a desire of ...
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