In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 190
... things which is unnatural because , if that inversion is maintained , it denies men their proper place in the normal order . The same is partly true of witches , but they are potentially more dangerous because they are seen to draw on ...
... things which is unnatural because , if that inversion is maintained , it denies men their proper place in the normal order . The same is partly true of witches , but they are potentially more dangerous because they are seen to draw on ...
Page 257
... things . The images she uses are consistently concrete , physical ; abstract beliefs , and belief in abstractions , seem outside her frame of reference . Uninterested even in formulated political theories ( in Holinshed , Donwald's wife ...
... things . The images she uses are consistently concrete , physical ; abstract beliefs , and belief in abstractions , seem outside her frame of reference . Uninterested even in formulated political theories ( in Holinshed , Donwald's wife ...
Page 342
... things . While in Shakespeare's tragedies men are important individuals who cause upsets in national life , in his comedies the disturbances they cause are relatively unimportant and can therefore be righted by women who are entirely ...
... things . While in Shakespeare's tragedies men are important individuals who cause upsets in national life , in his comedies the disturbances they cause are relatively unimportant and can therefore be righted by women who are entirely ...
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