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... morality and , in particular , to the morality of its actresses . This opposition was fuelled by the Methodist revival . Yet the moral temperature of the drama had already been readjusted . A reaction against Restoration bawdiness ...
... morality and , in particular , to the morality of its actresses . This opposition was fuelled by the Methodist revival . Yet the moral temperature of the drama had already been readjusted . A reaction against Restoration bawdiness ...
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... moral ending . The title - role was one of her brother's favourites . In Pizarro , another free adaptation of von ... morality . She not only indulged in ' extra- connubial attachments ' , but incited men to murder , as well . And still ...
... moral ending . The title - role was one of her brother's favourites . In Pizarro , another free adaptation of von ... morality . She not only indulged in ' extra- connubial attachments ' , but incited men to murder , as well . And still ...
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... moral of this incident for Ellen was that Henry had ' a finer sense of what was right for the scene'.55 And she defended him in her autobiography against the charge that she was given too many ' second fiddle parts ' by arguing that she ...
... moral of this incident for Ellen was that Henry had ' a finer sense of what was right for the scene'.55 And she defended him in her autobiography against the charge that she was given too many ' second fiddle parts ' by arguing that she ...
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