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...men acquired several plays along with ''Brunhild'' that required "striking women's costumes" (for example, "[[Black Joan|Black Joan]]" #1108 and "[[Alice Pi

| More dissemblers beside women||||

...e British Shakespeare Association); and the collection of essays <em>Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries</em> (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute P

| [[Two Angry Women of Abington, Part 2]]||[[1599]]||[[Porter, Henry|Porter]]||[[:category:Admi | [[Two Merry Women of Abington]]||[[1599]]||[[Porter, Henry|Porter]]||[[:category:Admiral's|Ad

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| ''The Spanish Viceroy or the honor of women''||}|| | ''The Honour of Women'', a comedy||}||

| [[Masque of Italian Women]]||[[1560]]||[[Anon.]]||[[:category:Whitehall|Whitehall]] | [[Masque of Women]]||[[1567]]||[[Anon.]]||[[:category:Whitehall|Whitehall]]

...this seems to have been a marriage comedy. It featured at least two witty women, who had to adopt desperate measures to obtain husbands. ...he title suggests a (possibly somewhat bawdy) comedy featuring one or more women willing to take the initiative in marriage-matters.

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| [[Way to Content All Women, or How a Man May Please His Wife]]||[[1624]]||[[Gunnell, Richard|Gunnell]]

...eak well of Englishmen, even though he has committed this crime. Ten young women in the crowd then step forward, citing a local law that allows his death se

...owever, the event was also recounted in the anonymous ''A Warning for Fair Women'' (1599) (see [[#References to the Play|"References to the Play"]] below), A similar account exists in the anonymous ''A Warning for Fair Women'' (1599):

...what'' ('''tis long since I beheld'')<br>''The Sun and Day; what have wee women done,<br>That any one who was a mothers sonne<br>Should thus affront our se

...d in this offyce whereon was ymployed for scarfes garters head Attyers for women & Lynynges for hatt''es'' vj ells of Sarcenett A cytie a towne & vj payre o

...notes that John Marston wrote a play with a similar title (''The Wonder of Women, or Sophonisba her Tragedy'', 1605) and that William Rowley wrote an even l

...Goddesses'' (1604) and Jonson’s ''Masque of Queenes'' (1669) which feature women as the masquers: “Lawrence is too much influenced by the spurious ‘marg ...er that it was sometimes heavy going." It reportedly opens with two Amazon women discussing divorce:

::The Spanish Viceroy or the honor of women … } by Phill. Massinger. ...eparate entries. Although a viceroy does feature in the extant ''Honour of Women'', he is a minor character.

| [[Honor of Women]]||[[1628]]||[[Massinger, Philip|Massinger]]||[[:category:unknown|Unknown]]

...ay in the title of John Fletcher's ''Woman Pleased'' (printed in 1647 as ''Women Pleased'').

...r the lost play. In Painter’s account, Zenobia is “one of the most famous Women of the worlde,” a paragon who “hadde the heart of <i>Alexander</i> the ...n of a Christian Woman'' (Juan Luis Vives, 1529) and ''The Defence of Good Women'' (Thomas Elyot, 1545) as sources (148). Observing that the play would have

:The Hon^r. of Women A C. by Massinger

...re in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'', the other being ''A Warning for Fair Women'' (pp. 187-8). He claims that the story of Page's murder in Plymouth in 15 ...iral's Men, with possible commercial connections with ''A Warning for Fair Women'' (Q1599) in the repertory of the Chamberlain's Men (p. 26). She summarizes

...us: "For the King's Company. An Old Play, called, More Dissemblers besides Women, allowed by Sir George Bucke; and being free from alterations was allowed b

| 19||||More then 9 days wonder Two constant women||||

...ffeminate, and therefore most ruled his ordinary affaires by the aduise of women either for the loue he bare to their persons or liking he had to their plea

...asting of male actors in female roles to be unusual given the frequency of women performing in parish plays, suggesting it may have been a school play perfo

...he vanishes in the night. The ballad ends on a closing admonition to young women to keep their betrothal promises.

...rt. The men were well mounted and richly arrayed making a goodly shew, the women all in coaches. I do not heare yet how all things passed there for I have n ...in the masques in ''Timon of Athens'' (1605/6), ''More Dissemblers Besides Women'' (1614), and ''The Nice Valour'' (1622). His presence in specifically nupt

...Doue'' could not digest his meat without musicke, nor drinke wine with out women, so that his hostesse being a merrie wench, would often times call in two o

...ding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em">Catty, Jocelyn. ''Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England: Unbridled Speech.'' Houndmills: Macmillan, 1999.</

...iends with Saul's son Jonathan. Saul, however, becomes displeased when the women of the cities of Israel celebrate David's valour in battle instead of Saul'

...rule, women were taken offstage to be executed, as in ''A Warning for Fair Women'' (p. 27).

...576), the daughter of the first Duke of Fernandina, and one of the leading women of her adopted city of Florence until her death at the hands of her own hus

...people of seuerall conditions.” His chamber was reportedly “fraught with women,” an entourage of laundresses permitted to accommodate him, including one ...ngham’s residence, preparing love charms used by the Duke to corrupt young women, and foretelling the Duke’s death by way of an image in his glass of a he

:''A Warning for Fair Women'', like ''Arden of Feversham'' (printed 1592), dramatizes a crime, the murd

:Angry women of Abington. :Warning for fair women.

...at countrie onelie with Britains, which abhorring to ioine themselues with women borne in Gallia, Conan was counselled to send into Britaine for maids to be

...money,' but there are always a good many people present, many respectable women as well, because useful argumenta, and many good doctrines, as we were told

...mould of ''The Changeling''’s Beatrice-Joanna or Bianca of ''Women Beware Women'', fully aware of the power she has over the besotted sultan, which she exp

<blockquote>they have massacred in all parts above three hundred men women and Children, and have, since nott only spoyled and slaine Divers of our Ca ...e council at Jamestown sent word of the murder of ‘above three hundred men women and Children’ and the news arrived in London in July. … It was not unti

...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