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Emerging New Attitudes towards Women in Early Jacobean England,seventeenth century, the plays that reflect this attitude increased in number, but no dramatist pursued the issue as thoroughly as Webster did in his two great tragedies, . and . Although various factors—social, economic, political, moral—contributed to the emergence of this new perspective on the n

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Female Selfhood and Ideologies of Marriage in Early Jacobean Drama: , and ,, the social scale.. But, thanks to work on the records both of the ecclesiastical courts and of Bridewell Hospital in London, we now also know a great deal about the transgressions of less prominent women and men.. As has been explained in the previous chapter, Lady Penelope Rich, for instance, who

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Conclusion,ning the realities that confronted women as well as women’s defiance of conventional concepts of womanhood helped the emergence of a new kind of view of women in the late Jacobean years. In this sense some male playwrights in the period were active agents in forming and altering contemporary culture

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Emerging New Attitudes towards Women in Early Jacobean England,hts’ handling of female characters, mostly in the plays written for private theatres. These plays pose questions about conventional female virtues by considering them in a social context, satirising them or parodying the works intended to promulgate such norms. In the dramatic works, such sceptical

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Women and Publishing Their Works in the Late Jacobean Years,Stigma of Print’.. Female writers of the aristocracy had to overcome an even higher barrier: that of contemporary prejudice against women writing their original works, let alone publishing them. In the case of translations, this social code was not so strict, particularly if the works had classic or

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Conclusion, in the English Renaissance. This book has examined its process, by focusing on plays and prose writings written by authors of both genders in the period, placing special emphasis on works by Lady Mary Wroth. In terms of women’s pursuit of self-actualisation, it is an historical fact that many more