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 393
... Humour can be argued from linguistic and theatrical connections between the two plays and from their contrasting or concurring ideas about drama and the theatre . Jonson scorns romantic comedy for its improbability , incredibility , for ...
... Humour can be argued from linguistic and theatrical connections between the two plays and from their contrasting or concurring ideas about drama and the theatre . Jonson scorns romantic comedy for its improbability , incredibility , for ...
Page 394
... Humour Cordatus objects to cross- wooing , his author , Asper / Jonson , uses the device himself in the very same play . Fallace " dotes as perfectly upon the Courtier , as her husband doth on her " ( The Characters of the Persons , 11 ...
... Humour Cordatus objects to cross- wooing , his author , Asper / Jonson , uses the device himself in the very same play . Fallace " dotes as perfectly upon the Courtier , as her husband doth on her " ( The Characters of the Persons , 11 ...
Page 402
... Humour , in two editions , in 1600. This last attacked Shakespeare . Both editions of Every Man out of his Humour claim to contain " more than hath been Publickely Spoken or Acted . " This was found on the title pages and could have ...
... Humour , in two editions , in 1600. This last attacked Shakespeare . Both editions of Every Man out of his Humour claim to contain " more than hath been Publickely Spoken or Acted . " This was found on the title pages and could have ...
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