In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 190
... treated with any seriousness in the drama . In the plays after Macbeth , M. C. Bradbrook says , witches " are used for spectacular and intermittent effects , and the marvellous elbows out the sinister . " 20 This seems equally true of ...
... treated with any seriousness in the drama . In the plays after Macbeth , M. C. Bradbrook says , witches " are used for spectacular and intermittent effects , and the marvellous elbows out the sinister . " 20 This seems equally true of ...
Page 198
... treated " bridled " either literally in devices such as a branks , or at least made to " bridle " their " churlishness " as Tom Tyler's wife was ( see p . 82 above ) . There was a sombre side to Elizabethan representations of witchcraft ...
... treated " bridled " either literally in devices such as a branks , or at least made to " bridle " their " churlishness " as Tom Tyler's wife was ( see p . 82 above ) . There was a sombre side to Elizabethan representations of witchcraft ...
Page 282
... treated merely as a woman ; her actions and influences are those of a divinity . Helen also is Beauty , " shaped by the golden meane , " having " such graces as the Gods adore " ; even Thomas Heywood professes himself content to leave ...
... treated merely as a woman ; her actions and influences are those of a divinity . Helen also is Beauty , " shaped by the golden meane , " having " such graces as the Gods adore " ; even Thomas Heywood professes himself content to leave ...
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