In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 192
... witchcraft which could be used 27 beneficially ; ' in Shakespeare , natural human beauty becomes , in this instance ... witchcraft in your lips Kate " ( V.2.271-272 ) : French witchcraft here seals the Anglo- French peace , and might be ...
... witchcraft which could be used 27 beneficially ; ' in Shakespeare , natural human beauty becomes , in this instance ... witchcraft in your lips Kate " ( V.2.271-272 ) : French witchcraft here seals the Anglo- French peace , and might be ...
Page 194
... witchcraft literature abounds in details of the sexual abnor- malities of witches.` 31 Middleton , to some extent , uses these associations comically in The Witch . Hecate's characterisation derives from Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft ...
... witchcraft literature abounds in details of the sexual abnor- malities of witches.` 31 Middleton , to some extent , uses these associations comically in The Witch . Hecate's characterisation derives from Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft ...
Page 208
... witchcraft is criticized , the effects of witchcraft are minimized and a sceptical attitude is endorsed " ( Demonology , Magic and Witch- craft in the English Drama , 1580-1642 , unpubl . M.Litt . Thesis , University of Cambridge , 1949 ...
... witchcraft is criticized , the effects of witchcraft are minimized and a sceptical attitude is endorsed " ( Demonology , Magic and Witch- craft in the English Drama , 1580-1642 , unpubl . M.Litt . Thesis , University of Cambridge , 1949 ...
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