In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... thee life , and it resumes / That life againe , because it kils my pleasure " ( IV.1685f . ) . Though later scenes , in which Timoclea is disguised as a ghost , hover precariously on the brink of farce , Timoclea , who responds to the ...
... thee life , and it resumes / That life againe , because it kils my pleasure " ( IV.1685f . ) . Though later scenes , in which Timoclea is disguised as a ghost , hover precariously on the brink of farce , Timoclea , who responds to the ...
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... thee they are punisht " ( V.p.430 ) -seems momentarily to suggest that Helen acted as a scourge for Trojans and Greeks , but Heywood does not really question the value of martial honour . He depicts Helen from two fixed viewpoints , and ...
... thee they are punisht " ( V.p.430 ) -seems momentarily to suggest that Helen acted as a scourge for Trojans and Greeks , but Heywood does not really question the value of martial honour . He depicts Helen from two fixed viewpoints , and ...
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... thee now a strumpet . In this play , and others which strike the same note , there emerges a misogyny in which resides a fear of women's power , a private ( sexual ) power which can , through the Helen - image , be translated into ...
... thee now a strumpet . In this play , and others which strike the same note , there emerges a misogyny in which resides a fear of women's power , a private ( sexual ) power which can , through the Helen - image , be translated into ...
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