In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 186
... whore and a witch - utterly alien . Lesser characters in the drama who display ' male ' militar- istic and Amazonian qualities are similarly trivialized . In Barnes's The Devil's Charter " Warlike Kate , the pride of Italie " is an ...
... whore and a witch - utterly alien . Lesser characters in the drama who display ' male ' militar- istic and Amazonian qualities are similarly trivialized . In Barnes's The Devil's Charter " Warlike Kate , the pride of Italie " is an ...
Page 223
... whore " ( who is a " whore " because she has " lost her chastity " ) is married off . If the dramatic focus shifts from the Prodigal's salvation to the deserted woman , the dramatic note can turn to tragic , and in the period under ...
... whore " ( who is a " whore " because she has " lost her chastity " ) is married off . If the dramatic focus shifts from the Prodigal's salvation to the deserted woman , the dramatic note can turn to tragic , and in the period under ...
Page 325
... whore . " It is her own awareness of the connotations of role - playing and of the rhetoric appropriate to various roles which illuminates the end of the play . Cleopatra's and Antony's last moments together again place Cleopatra on the ...
... whore . " It is her own awareness of the connotations of role - playing and of the rhetoric appropriate to various roles which illuminates the end of the play . Cleopatra's and Antony's last moments together again place Cleopatra on the ...
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