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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... context . The present study must be set in the context of such studies of the development of the Elizabethan theatre as offered by Alfred Harbage , M.C. Bradbrook , Anne Righter , L. Salingar , and particularly Andrew Gurr and John ...
... context . The present study must be set in the context of such studies of the development of the Elizabethan theatre as offered by Alfred Harbage , M.C. Bradbrook , Anne Righter , L. Salingar , and particularly Andrew Gurr and John ...
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... context or deceive it by deliberately manipulating that context . A Renaissance spectator's interpretation of the gender of a sexually disguised character could have been influenced by knowledge of the character's name . Thus Cesario is ...
... context or deceive it by deliberately manipulating that context . A Renaissance spectator's interpretation of the gender of a sexually disguised character could have been influenced by knowledge of the character's name . Thus Cesario is ...
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... context it also functions as a big word to frighten Andrew . The word ' virago ' seems to have been used for a male as well . 10 It is not a clue indicating that Toby has perceived the disguise . This is altogether unsupported by the ...
... context it also functions as a big word to frighten Andrew . The word ' virago ' seems to have been used for a male as well . 10 It is not a clue indicating that Toby has perceived the disguise . This is altogether unsupported by the ...
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