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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... revenge . One problem for Hamlet is whether to revenge a murdered king ( public revenge ) or a cuckolded husband ( private revenge ) . Caesar's murder on the Capitol was , and was staged by Shakespeare as being public and ritualistic ...
... revenge . One problem for Hamlet is whether to revenge a murdered king ( public revenge ) or a cuckolded husband ( private revenge ) . Caesar's murder on the Capitol was , and was staged by Shakespeare as being public and ritualistic ...
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... revenge and desire is completed when eventually Gratiano hardly can wait to be " couching with the doctor's clerk , " coarsely punning again on " keeping safe Nerissa's ring " ( 11. 304-07 ) . The same allusions , though less coarse ...
... revenge and desire is completed when eventually Gratiano hardly can wait to be " couching with the doctor's clerk , " coarsely punning again on " keeping safe Nerissa's ring " ( 11. 304-07 ) . The same allusions , though less coarse ...
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... Revenge Broken Heart , The Mustapha Albumazar Maidonhead Well Lost , A Noble Spanish Solder , The Perkin Warbeck Traitor , The Ford , J. Greville , F. Tomkins , T. Heywood , T. Dekker , T. an . Shirley , J. Beaumont , F. & Fletcher ...
... Revenge Broken Heart , The Mustapha Albumazar Maidonhead Well Lost , A Noble Spanish Solder , The Perkin Warbeck Traitor , The Ford , J. Greville , F. Tomkins , T. Heywood , T. Dekker , T. an . Shirley , J. Beaumont , F. & Fletcher ...
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