In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... tradition of the Saracen antagonist , the anti - Christ , was so old that drama which drew on this tradition could hardly avoid caricaturing the women . The violence and cruelty , often combined with lustfulness , associated with pagan ...
... tradition of the Saracen antagonist , the anti - Christ , was so old that drama which drew on this tradition could hardly avoid caricaturing the women . The violence and cruelty , often combined with lustfulness , associated with pagan ...
Page 273
... tradition provides the " consolation " of the Virgin Mary , the passive vessel of salvation . Here are two separate images , linked by Christian belief and optimism , as well as by a particular view of the uses of women , and the Virgin ...
... tradition provides the " consolation " of the Virgin Mary , the passive vessel of salvation . Here are two separate images , linked by Christian belief and optimism , as well as by a particular view of the uses of women , and the Virgin ...
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... tradition ) , is presented as a Type familiar to Heywood's audiences : no longer a troublingly ambiguous ( if debased ) semi - divine figure , she belongs here to the ' city - wife ' tradition and in Part II of the play ...
... tradition ) , is presented as a Type familiar to Heywood's audiences : no longer a troublingly ambiguous ( if debased ) semi - divine figure , she belongs here to the ' city - wife ' tradition and in Part II of the play ...
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