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 43
... audiences as famous actors , on- or off- stage . Some modern theoreticians of the theatre may hold that a balance must always occur between audience perception of an actor and of a character , but such assertions are problematic when ...
... audiences as famous actors , on- or off- stage . Some modern theoreticians of the theatre may hold that a balance must always occur between audience perception of an actor and of a character , but such assertions are problematic when ...
Page 81
... audience actor - awareness for purposes of titillation . ii . Audience Response A precise account of the impact of the boy actor's person on stage and in the process of audience reception cannot of course be given because the necessary ...
... audience actor - awareness for purposes of titillation . ii . Audience Response A precise account of the impact of the boy actor's person on stage and in the process of audience reception cannot of course be given because the necessary ...
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... audience that disguise is being used . " In performing Epicoene , therefore , the players Pepys saw fulfilled the expectations of the Lord in The Taming of the Shrew that " the boy will well usurp the grace , / Voice , gait , and action ...
... audience that disguise is being used . " In performing Epicoene , therefore , the players Pepys saw fulfilled the expectations of the Lord in The Taming of the Shrew that " the boy will well usurp the grace , / Voice , gait , and action ...
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