cozener


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When Ben Jonson wants to portray debauchery at its worst, for instance, he has his master cozener Volpone engage in an elaborate fantasy of sexual license.
Ganymedes and Kings: Staging Male Homosexual Desire in The Winter's Tale
(16.) On this point see Angela Hurworth, "Gulls, Cony-Catchers and Cozeners: Twelfth Night and the Elizabethan Underworld," Shakespeare Survey 52 (1999): 120-32.
Rogues' License: Counterfeiting Authority in Early Modern Literature
Betsy Blossom in Samuel Foote's comedy The Cozeners (1774), has the following dramatic outburst:
'William and Margaret': An Eighteenth-Century ballad
The topics include the survival of customary justice and resistant to its displacement by the new Ordines Iudiciorum as evidence by francophone literature of the high middle ages, women as victims and criminals in the Siete Partidas, wardens and jailers in 14th-century southern France, equal opportunity vengeance in the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre, and some cozeners in Shakespeare's England.
Crime and punishment in the Middle Ages and early Modern Age; mental-historical investigations of basic human problems and social responses
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