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...on reinforced by a royal commandment spread throughout the realm that “all women shall holde their husbandes in honour both among great and small” (Esther ...donosor (Babylon). Esther first found favor with Hegai, “the keeper of the women” (Esther 2:8), who groomed her through traditional purification rites to

...red loves') gets up onto the stage and delivers a long speech to the young women present, a speech which appears under a fresh heading and actually takes up ...nature of desire, love, and marriage, particularly from the perspective of women.

...religious rites. Heliogabalus wore silk robes of an effeminate style, used women's make-up, and "danced around the altars to music played on every kind of i ...ts/Cassius_Dio/80*.html p. 463, margin]): Sardanapalus "wanted to imitate [women's] actions” when he took male lovers to bed. Wearing a wig, he “frequen

...th, laied violent hands vpon him. Vnto whō Orcines saide: I haue hard that women in times past haue reigned, & borne great rule in Asia, but it is nowe a mo

...EEBO-TCP furnishes several examples which tend to suggest that “when young women and holidays are linked, the frame of reference is pastoral”. For insta

...to be confusing Plutarch with Boccaccio, who wrote on the lives of famous women. However, the story of the rape of Timoclea is included in Plutarch's life

...urces to best her rival, a girl named Gillian. In the climactic scene both women stand passably in a field awaiting the apprentice, Richard Castelier, only ...ence. In the last moments of the tale, turning away from the common lot of women (marriage and children) and going her own way alone, Deloney's Meg becomes

:If you could leave her now, and betake your selfe handsomely to other Women, I have thought on a course.

Most of the women mentioned in Whyte's first letter can be identified as Maids of Honour to E

...d the Company's resources to the limits: even the gatherers -- the men and women who collected admission money at the playhouse doors -- were brought on sta

...meaningful terms, but do they suggest a repertoire unusually interested in women?

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...pecial tricks of fairies named Pinch, Pach, Gull, and Grim, plus tricks of women fairies (pp. 40-5). Hearing all these tales, the traveler turns wearily to

...style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Boccaccio, Giovanni. ''Famous Women''. Trans. Virginia Brown. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2001.</div>

...he first sees her (st. 15). She resists capture for herself and the other women, but Mahomet claims her, assuring her that she will have her “owne free c ...In further defense of "Siren," the Clown spins out to other marquee Greek women, Helen and Cressida. The banter continues until the musicians strike up, at

:women; how men killed T about brittle :rail upon women, roar at men, I will

...hether "some women of Credit and good behaviour" were also named "amongste women suspected" ([http://archive.org/stream/lincolnshire01stok#page/274/mode/2up

...ive peeces of ''Iron'' into the Sea, all fetched out by one of them: The ''women'' as good at it as the men. Both Sexes given to filthy and promiscuous lust

...afe, he demaunded of her the cause thereof who straight-waye tolde him (as women can conceale nothing that lyeth vppon their stomackes) howe shee was abused

...in the Digital Age", in Sarah Ross and Rosalind Smith, eds. ''Early Modern Women's Complaint''. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.<br> Collins, Eleanor. “Changing Fashions: Tragicomedy, Romance and Heroic Women in the 1630s Hall-Playhouses”. ''Moving Shakespeare Indoors: Performance