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 68
... I'll be an auditor ; / An actor , too , perhaps " ( 3.1.74-75 ) shows the same ambiguity . Moreover , Shakespeare may be playing on " actor " as distinguished in status from " player , " for Bottom wants the " actors " to be called from ...
... I'll be an auditor ; / An actor , too , perhaps " ( 3.1.74-75 ) shows the same ambiguity . Moreover , Shakespeare may be playing on " actor " as distinguished in status from " player , " for Bottom wants the " actors " to be called from ...
Page 341
... I'll be your bed - fellow " ( p . 471 ) . Robin was Richard's bedfellow , but the office of bedfellow now has a broader implication , not in conflict with the erotic fantasy in its undercurrent . Robin rebukes Lady Fauconbridge for ...
... I'll be your bed - fellow " ( p . 471 ) . Robin was Richard's bedfellow , but the office of bedfellow now has a broader implication , not in conflict with the erotic fantasy in its undercurrent . Robin rebukes Lady Fauconbridge for ...
Page 544
... I'll make him mad for hate " ( 1.1.11-12 ) . Jacomo enters ( 11. 21 ) and will woo Celia under her window . The lines he speaks echoes the midnight fantasy as contained in both Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night ...
... I'll make him mad for hate " ( 1.1.11-12 ) . Jacomo enters ( 11. 21 ) and will woo Celia under her window . The lines he speaks echoes the midnight fantasy as contained in both Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night ...
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