In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... traditional courtesy is denied her . The authors steer a path between condoning Sawyer's vengefulness- which has no really harmful outcome as far as other people are concerned and recognising the social evils which qualify the ' evil ...
... traditional courtesy is denied her . The authors steer a path between condoning Sawyer's vengefulness- which has no really harmful outcome as far as other people are concerned and recognising the social evils which qualify the ' evil ...
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... traditional ( Kydian ) revenge play , women are rarely important enough to be truly bad . They act as reflectors who take their moral colouring from whatever situa- tions they are involved in , which are concerned with avenging male ...
... traditional ( Kydian ) revenge play , women are rarely important enough to be truly bad . They act as reflectors who take their moral colouring from whatever situa- tions they are involved in , which are concerned with avenging male ...
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... Traditional Moral Order . Madison , 1968 . Sturgess , Keith , ed . Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies . Tatlock , J. P. " The Seige of Troy in Elizabethan Literature , especially in Shakespeare and Heywood , " PMLA XXX ( 1915 ) , 673 ...
... Traditional Moral Order . Madison , 1968 . Sturgess , Keith , ed . Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies . Tatlock , J. P. " The Seige of Troy in Elizabethan Literature , especially in Shakespeare and Heywood , " PMLA XXX ( 1915 ) , 673 ...
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