Women Beware Women

Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408144602

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Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton Pdf

One of the great Renaissance playwrights, Middleton wrote tragedies essentially different from either Marlowe's or Shakespeare's, being wittier than the former and more grittily ironic than the latter. The genre of 'citizen tragedy' came into its own in the eighteenth century, but Middleton can claim to have created it: Bianca, wife of a middling commercial agent, arouses the lust of the Duke of Florence and becomes his mistress, first secretly, then openly and finally, after her husband has been seduced by the scheming Lady Livia and stabbed by Livia's brother, the Duke's wife. Livia plots her revenge, and the play ends with a banquet and a masque that are a triumph of black farce. Middleton's powerful, psychologically complex female characters and his clear-sighted analysis of misogyny are bound to impress today's audiences, but it is the pervasive irony - cynicism, even - with which he dissects the motivations of both oppressor and victim that makes him so eerily modern.

Author : Jesse Berger
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : 0822223678

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Women Beware Women by Jesse Berger Pdf

THE STORY: Thomas Middleton's rarely performed masterpiece, WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN, is a fascinating and entertaining tragicomedy (or is it a comi-tragedy?) by one of Shakespeare's most popular contemporaries. This provocative play portrays a ruling cl

Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408144558

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A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton Pdf

Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613, this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature even in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people in London's busiest commercial area, are likely to be fake. Money is more important than either happiness or honour; and the most coveted commodities to be bought with it are sex and social prestige. Middleton interweaves the fortunes of four families, who either seek to marry their children off as profitably as possible, to stop having any more for fear of poverty, or to acquire some in order to keep their property in the family. Most prosperous is the husband who pimps his wife to a rich knight and lets him support the household with his alimony. Like many early modern critics of London's enormous growth, this play warned: the city is a monster that lives off the money the country produces.

Author : Thomas Middleton,William Rowley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1653
Category : English drama
ISBN : UIUC:30112040715374

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The Changeling by Thomas Middleton,William Rowley Pdf

The Changeling is a popular Renaissance tragedy in which the relationship between money, sex, and power is explored. Frequently performed and studied in University courses, it is a key text in the New Mermaids series.

Author : Charles Wentworth Dilke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : English drama
ISBN : UCAL:$B325953

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Women beware women; Trick to catch the old one, by T. Middleton. A new wonder, a woman never vext, by W. Rowley. Appius and Virginia, by J. Webster by Charles Wentworth Dilke Pdf

Author : Gwen B. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1881163512

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Men Beware Women by Gwen B. Thompson Pdf

Fiction. Malcolm has read so many English novels that Oxford feels as familiar as it does foreign when he arrives from New York to study Shakespeare in the intervals between crew practice. But all it takes is one drama student for life to shake loose his grasp of literature. Emma isn't the prettiest girl he's ever slept with, or the most well-read, but her mind most matches his. When she lands a part in a play Off-Off-Broadway and decamps to New York leaving no forwarding address, the irony that in a book would be artistic rankles in real life. Cast adrift, Malcolm miscalculates and breaks two ribs rowing. His Shakespeare tutor warns him not to let love get in the way of literature or at least not till they do the tragedies but as soon as term ends, Malcolm hops a plane to New York. Will he be able to steer his own course to the middle way his tutor's always touting? Or do happy endings only exist in books? "Gwen Thompson portrays Oxford dons, Upper East Side executives, and working-class English girls with the same breezy mastery, while reveling in the minutiae of Elizabethan drama, pub crawling, competitive rowing, and getting your heart broken. A thoroughly charming performance from a very talented young writer." Ralph Lombreglia"

Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0719015529

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Michaelmas Term by Thomas Middleton Pdf

"This edition, newly collated and edited, features complete explanations of the play's often bawdy exchanges and the complex stage action of the gulling and secondary plots. It will be invaluable for advanced students of the Middleton canon as well as all those interested in early modern London and its vibrant theatrical culture, especially the tradition of boy choristers as professional actors."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Alice Duer Miller
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781473374478

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Are Women People? - A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Alice Duer Miller Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : G. Bean,Kay Zee
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1449797059

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Women Beware by G. Bean,Kay Zee Pdf

This book is to empower women and to know who your enemies are. It's also a book about the opposite sex, what to watch out for in a relationship, and the signs of a cheater. Once a cheater, always a cheater. A leopard never loses its spots. This is a very informative book of inspiration. It is well balanced with worldly and godly viewpoints. It will make you think about the beauty that you have within, beauty that He created from the inside out. You may want to carry this book with you, as it contains a workbook on how to pray and the power of prayer (which also includes Scriptures). Every person has a purpose, and only He can guide you and make you the best person you can be. I pray He will bless you and change you from the inside out.

Author : Mara R. Wade
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401210232

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Gender Matters by Mara R. Wade Pdf

Gender Matters opens the debate concerning violence in literature and the arts beyond a single national tradition and engages with multivalent aspects of both female and male gender constructs, mapping them onto depictions of violence. By defining a tight thematic focus and yet offering a broad disciplinary scope for inquiry, the present volume brings together a wide range of scholarly papers investigating a cohesive topic—gendered violence—from the perspectives of French, German, Italian, Spanish, English, and Japanese literature, history, musicology, art history, and cultural studies. It interrogates the intersection of gender and violence in the early modern period, cutting across national traditions, genres, media, and disciplines. By engaging several levels of discourse, the volume advances a holistic approach to understanding gendered violence in the early modern world. The convergence of discourses concerning literature, the arts, emerging print technologies, social and legal norms, and textual and visual practices leverages a more complex understanding of gender in this period. Through the unifying lens of gender and violence the contributions to this volume comprehensively address a wide scope of diverse issues, approaches, and geographies from late medieval Japan to the European Enlightenment. While the majority of essays focus on early modern Europe, they are broadly contextualized and informed by integrated critical approaches pertaining to issues of violence and gender.

Author : Jess Zimmerman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807054932

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Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman Pdf

A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism The folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in our stories (many written by men), we underline the idea that women who step out of bounds—who are angry or greedy or ambitious, who are overtly sexual or not sexy enough—aren’t just outside the norm. They’re unnatural. Monstrous. But maybe, the traits we’ve been told make us dangerous and undesirable are actually our greatest strengths. Through fresh analysis of 11 female monsters, including Medusa, the Harpies, the Furies, and the Sphinx, Jess Zimmerman takes us on an illuminating feminist journey through mythology. She guides women (and others) to reexamine their relationships with traits like hunger, anger, ugliness, and ambition, teaching readers to embrace a new image of the female hero: one that looks a lot like a monster, with the agency and power to match. Often, women try to avoid the feeling of monstrousness, of being grotesquely alien, by tamping down those qualities that we’re told fall outside the bounds of natural femininity. But monsters also get to do what other female characters—damsels, love interests, and even most heroines—do not. Monsters get to be complete, unrestrained, and larger than life. Today, women are becoming increasingly aware of the ways rules and socially constructed expectations have diminished us. After seeing where compliance gets us—harassed, shut out, and ruled by predators—women have never been more ready to become repellent, fearsome, and ravenous.

Author : Andrew Hiscock
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847060921

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Women Beware Women by Andrew Hiscock Pdf

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Author : Victoria Bateman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509526802

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The Sex Factor by Victoria Bateman Pdf

Why did the West become so rich? Why is inequality rising? How ‘free’ should markets be? And what does sex have to do with it? In this passionate and skilfully argued book, leading feminist Victoria Bateman shows how we can only understand the burning economic issues of our time if we put sex and gender – ‘the sex factor’ – at the heart of the picture. Spanning the globe and drawing on thousands of years of history, Bateman tells a bold story about how the status and freedom of women are central to our prosperity. Genuine female empowerment requires us not only to recognize the liberating potential of markets and smart government policies but also to challenge the double-standard of many modern feminists when they celebrate the brain while denigrating the body. This iconoclastic book is a devastating exposé of what we have lost from ignoring ‘the sex factor’ and of how reversing this neglect can drive the smart economic policies we need today.

Author : Sophie Treadwell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1854592114

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Machinal by Sophie Treadwell Pdf

Frequently reprinted with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographic data.

Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:a10000094

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Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton Pdf