In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... virtuous ( II.1.286f . ) ; choosing independence seems to be her own way of proving that women are 16 17 18 Dekker and Middleton , The Roaring Girl , " To the Comicke Play- Readers , " ed . Bowers , Vol . III , p . 11 . See also ...
... virtuous ( II.1.286f . ) ; choosing independence seems to be her own way of proving that women are 16 17 18 Dekker and Middleton , The Roaring Girl , " To the Comicke Play- Readers , " ed . Bowers , Vol . III , p . 11 . See also ...
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... Virtuous Octavia ( 1598 ) Brandon compares Octavia's virtuous reconciliation of Antony and Caesar with Cleopatra's fatal sexual charm . Cleopatra does not appear , but her point of view is expressed by Sylvia's defence of unrestrained ...
... Virtuous Octavia ( 1598 ) Brandon compares Octavia's virtuous reconciliation of Antony and Caesar with Cleopatra's fatal sexual charm . Cleopatra does not appear , but her point of view is expressed by Sylvia's defence of unrestrained ...
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... virtuous are compromised and eventually destroyed . In Malfi a woman is at the centre of a virtuous and regenerative family unit of her own making ; she is destroyed by the corruption of the older , patriarchal , family unit which is ...
... virtuous are compromised and eventually destroyed . In Malfi a woman is at the centre of a virtuous and regenerative family unit of her own making ; she is destroyed by the corruption of the older , patriarchal , family unit which is ...
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