"As You are Well Pronounced by All External Warrants": Women's Bodies and Women's Places in 17th-century Dutch and English DramaWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2006 - 175 pages |
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Page 45
... turn into a handful of dust at the separation from the soul . Frequently , the woman's body and the woman as a body denote , therefore , less the source of fertility than a polluted vessel of fatality . Since flesh is bound with change ...
... turn into a handful of dust at the separation from the soul . Frequently , the woman's body and the woman as a body denote , therefore , less the source of fertility than a polluted vessel of fatality . Since flesh is bound with change ...
Page 121
... turns out to be a male ; the first device ( complete change in a character ) , in turn , relegates silence / chastity to the role of a " natural " disguise and is one more variation on the motif of the female body as an alternating mask ...
... turns out to be a male ; the first device ( complete change in a character ) , in turn , relegates silence / chastity to the role of a " natural " disguise and is one more variation on the motif of the female body as an alternating mask ...
Page 123
... turn'd with a wire ? Or some innocent out of the hospital , that would stand with her hands thus , and a plaise mouth , and look upon you ? ( III , ii , 34–37 ) Speechlessness is coupled here with stasis , lack of movement ...
... turn'd with a wire ? Or some innocent out of the hospital , that would stand with her hands thus , and a plaise mouth , and look upon you ? ( III , ii , 34–37 ) Speechlessness is coupled here with stasis , lack of movement ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Chapter I Constructions of femininity | 17 |
Translation notes | 57 |
Copyright | |
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