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41Elizabeth Needham — (right foreground) as portrayed in William Hogarth s A Harlot s Progress Elizabeth Needham (died 3 May 1731), also known as Mother Needham, was an English procuress and brothel keeper of 18th century London, who has been identified as the bawd… …
42Pericles, Prince of Tyre — This article is about Shakespeare s play. For other uses, see Pericles (disambiguation). Richard Pelzman as Simonides, Colleen Delany as Thaisa and Ryan Artzberger as Pericles in the Shakespeare Theatre Company s 2007 production of Pericles… …
43bawdy — late 14c., soiled, dirty, filthy. Meaning lewd is from 1510s, from BAWD (Cf. bawd) (q.v.), with sense of pertaining to, or befitting a bawd; usually of language (originally to talk bawdy). Bawdy Basket, the twenty third rank of canters, who carry …
44Bawdry — Bawd ry, n. [OE. baudery, OF. bauderie, balderie, boldness, joy. See {Bawd}.] 1. The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust. [1913 Webster] 2. Illicit intercourse; fornication. Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Obscenity; filthy,… …
45Pandarus — In Homer s Iliad , Pandarus or Pandaros is a famous archer and the son of Lycaon. Pandarus, who fights on the side of Troy in the Trojan War, first appears in Book Two of the Iliad. In Book Four, he shoots Menelaus and wounds him with an arrow,… …
46English-language vowel changes before historic r — In the phonological history of the English language, vowels followed (or formerly followed) by the phoneme /r/ have undergone a number of phonological changes. In recent centuries, most or all of these changes have involved merging of vowel… …
47A Harlot's Progress — (also known as The Harlot s Progress ) is a series of six paintings (1731, now lost) and engravings (1732) by William Hogarth. The series shows the story of a young woman, Mary (or Moll) Hackabout, who arrives in London from the country and… …
48Rhotic and non-rhotic accents — English pronunciation can be divided into two main accent groups: a rhotic (pronounced /ˈroʊtɨk/, sometimes /ˈrɒtɨk/) speaker pronounces a rhotic consonant in words like hard; a non rhotic speaker does not. That is, rhotic speakers pronounce /r/… …
49A Mad World, My Masters — Contents 1 Genre 2 Characters 3 Synopsis 4 1977 updated ve …
50A Match at Midnight — is a Jacobean era stage play first printed in 1633, a comedy that represents a stubborn and persistent authorship problem in English Renaissance drama. [Stephen Blase Young, ed., A Critical Old Spelling Edition of A Match at Midnight, New York,… …
