In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... women eccentricity does not make a woman bad . Like other Amazons , Moll helps love's cause , but it does 17 not vanquish her . She assists Sebastian and Mary Fitzallard for the sake of Mary's name ( that is , ' Moll ' ) ( IV.1.65 ) ...
... women eccentricity does not make a woman bad . Like other Amazons , Moll helps love's cause , but it does 17 not vanquish her . She assists Sebastian and Mary Fitzallard for the sake of Mary's name ( that is , ' Moll ' ) ( IV.1.65 ) ...
Page 344
... women's parts were played by male actors . ) The rise and fall of misogynistic satire is related to the employment ... women . Beyond this , there is a broad category of satire of the kind which emerges in Thomas Overbury's The Wife ...
... women's parts were played by male actors . ) The rise and fall of misogynistic satire is related to the employment ... women . Beyond this , there is a broad category of satire of the kind which emerges in Thomas Overbury's The Wife ...
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... woman could not be presented as strongminded , able rationally to participate in public debate , and virtuous . Too , when the woman - hater , Misogynos , is ' caught ' , the women's revenge does not , as it does in de Flores , take the ...
... woman could not be presented as strongminded , able rationally to participate in public debate , and virtuous . Too , when the woman - hater , Misogynos , is ' caught ' , the women's revenge does not , as it does in de Flores , take the ...
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