In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... wealth and Royalism she was respected . She is presented 12 13 14 15 Francis W. X. Fincham , " Notes from the Ecclesiastical Court Records at Somerset House , " Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , 4th Series , IV ( 1921 ) , p ...
... wealth and Royalism she was respected . She is presented 12 13 14 15 Francis W. X. Fincham , " Notes from the Ecclesiastical Court Records at Somerset House , " Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , 4th Series , IV ( 1921 ) , p ...
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... wealthy " churl " she could find him great sums of gold and silver which lay buried in the ground , and worked a charm ( costing £ 14 ) which involved saddling the churl and riding him round his yard . Then , disguising herself as the ...
... wealthy " churl " she could find him great sums of gold and silver which lay buried in the ground , and worked a charm ( costing £ 14 ) which involved saddling the churl and riding him round his yard . Then , disguising herself as the ...
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... wealth . Her revenge is called " just " ( IV.1.77 ) , and Dumb Shows blame the nation's ills on Gorboduc and his sons , but Porrex's murder of his brother is not represented as being as dreadful as Videna's murdering him . Her taking ...
... wealth . Her revenge is called " just " ( IV.1.77 ) , and Dumb Shows blame the nation's ills on Gorboduc and his sons , but Porrex's murder of his brother is not represented as being as dreadful as Videna's murdering him . Her taking ...
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