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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... Faithful Shepherdess ( 1609 ) with this scornful remark : " multitudes there are whose judgement goes / Headlong according to the actors clothes " ( Verses , 11. 27- 28 ) . As implied by the letter added to Fletcher's play , the context ...
... Faithful Shepherdess ( 1609 ) with this scornful remark : " multitudes there are whose judgement goes / Headlong according to the actors clothes " ( Verses , 11. 27- 28 ) . As implied by the letter added to Fletcher's play , the context ...
Page 331
... Faithful Shepherdesse ( 1608 ) . The first play failed because the audience missed " the privy mark of irony , " as W. Burre wrote in the epistle to the printer , adding , that this " privy mark " showed that " it was no offspring of ...
... Faithful Shepherdesse ( 1608 ) . The first play failed because the audience missed " the privy mark of irony , " as W. Burre wrote in the epistle to the printer , adding , that this " privy mark " showed that " it was no offspring of ...
Page 389
... faithful women , ending in the traditional disguise - play remark " were I a woman , " is at best an indirect clue to the disguise . It can also be understood in the light of a sentimental master - page relationship . Twelfth Night may ...
... faithful women , ending in the traditional disguise - play remark " were I a woman , " is at best an indirect clue to the disguise . It can also be understood in the light of a sentimental master - page relationship . Twelfth Night may ...
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