All Semblative a Woman's Part?: Studies in the Staging of and Audience Response to Boy Actors in Sexual Disguise in the Elizabethan Theatre 1580-1615H. Gras, 1991 - 583 pages |
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Page 270
... Philaster's audience , then , need a keen ear for the play's text , and the context for interpreting the passage as containing signals for a disguised heroine is limited . The indication in Philaster , 2.1.57-60 , seems clearer . Philaster ...
... Philaster's audience , then , need a keen ear for the play's text , and the context for interpreting the passage as containing signals for a disguised heroine is limited . The indication in Philaster , 2.1.57-60 , seems clearer . Philaster ...
Page 271
... Philaster must break down if Bellario is to marry Philaster . The first quarto , uneasy about deviating from accepted traditions , has Galatea and Euphrasia married to Clerimond and Thrasiline . This might indicate that the writer of ...
... Philaster must break down if Bellario is to marry Philaster . The first quarto , uneasy about deviating from accepted traditions , has Galatea and Euphrasia married to Clerimond and Thrasiline . This might indicate that the writer of ...
Page 504
... Philaster , ( London , rpt . , 1973 ) p . lxxvii . 24.Gurr decisively rejects Savage's argument that the first quarto was a censored version of the second , see pp . 1xxv - lxxvi . 25.Gurr , p . lxxviii . 26.Gurr , p . 1xxviii ; Turner ...
... Philaster , ( London , rpt . , 1973 ) p . lxxvii . 24.Gurr decisively rejects Savage's argument that the first quarto was a censored version of the second , see pp . 1xxv - lxxvi . 25.Gurr , p . lxxviii . 26.Gurr , p . 1xxviii ; Turner ...
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