In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... woman " ? More basically , who must be defined as " the other woman " if sexual involvement , entered into after the man has made a verbal promise of support , legally binds a man to a woman ? In the Prodigal - type pattern , the first ...
... woman " ? More basically , who must be defined as " the other woman " if sexual involvement , entered into after the man has made a verbal promise of support , legally binds a man to a woman ? In the Prodigal - type pattern , the first ...
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... woman " does to hinder this development is bad ; her Christian duty is to accept the solu- tion the Prodigal devises . Jacobean plays sometimes question the view that neither woman should press her claims : the deserted woman , it is ...
... woman " does to hinder this development is bad ; her Christian duty is to accept the solu- tion the Prodigal devises . Jacobean plays sometimes question the view that neither woman should press her claims : the deserted woman , it is ...
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... woman , as it is in de Flores ' novel , but by a prince disguised as an Amazon . That suggests that the playwright felt a woman could not be presented as strongminded , able rationally to participate in public debate , and virtuous ...
... woman , as it is in de Flores ' novel , but by a prince disguised as an Amazon . That suggests that the playwright felt a woman could not be presented as strongminded , able rationally to participate in public debate , and virtuous ...
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