In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 190
... witches , " and despite the regularity of witch trials in Renaissance England , women with ' supernatural ' powers are hardly treated with any seriousness in the drama . In the plays after Macbeth , M. C. Bradbrook says , witches " are ...
... witches , " and despite the regularity of witch trials in Renaissance England , women with ' supernatural ' powers are hardly treated with any seriousness in the drama . In the plays after Macbeth , M. C. Bradbrook says , witches " are ...
Page 193
... witch is subjected , spectacularly , to the accepted form of contemporary punishment for witches , being flung into the flames of her burning temple ( G1V ) . The associa- tion between the burning of witches and the Biblical injunction ...
... witch is subjected , spectacularly , to the accepted form of contemporary punishment for witches , being flung into the flames of her burning temple ( G1V ) . The associa- tion between the burning of witches and the Biblical injunction ...
Page 194
... witches and " harlots " ) , " and , of course , contemporary 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 ...
... witches and " harlots " ) , " and , of course , contemporary 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 ...
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