Renaissance Dramatists

accused action Amintor Arethusa audience Bartholomew Fair behaviour Ben Jonson Bianca boy players chaste chastity comedy comic conflict context conventional court debate Dekker discussion dramatic dramatists Duchess of Malfi early modern effect Elizabeth Sawyer Epicoene Eurymine evidence example explicitly familiar fantasy female feminism feminist feminist criticism feminist reading Fletcher gender Goodcole Grissil Harebrain hath Helen Mirren heroine Heywood historical honour husband ideological insisted Jacobean joke Jonson Lady language literary lover lust male marriage married misogynist misogyny moral moreover mother narrative Nevertheless notion offered Othello particular patriarchal Petruchio Philaster play pleasures plot poetic political potential presented production question representation of women rhetoric Roaring Girl role Royal Shakespeare Company satiric scene seen sexual relations Shakespeare shee Shrew social speech stage story structures Stubbes theatre theatrical thee thou tradition violence wife Witch of Edmonton witchcraft witches witty woman women characters