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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... Drama cannot use pronouns as narrative , but the speech prefix is a close parallel . Like the pronoun in a narrative , a drama author's prefixes may reveal his view of the stability of a particular dramatic character's identity ...
... Drama cannot use pronouns as narrative , but the speech prefix is a close parallel . Like the pronoun in a narrative , a drama author's prefixes may reveal his view of the stability of a particular dramatic character's identity ...
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... drama has been discussed by Richard Levin , who denies that there was a general habit among contemporaries of interpreting texts or drama performances along allegorical or thematic lines ( " The Relation of External Evidence to the ...
... drama has been discussed by Richard Levin , who denies that there was a general habit among contemporaries of interpreting texts or drama performances along allegorical or thematic lines ( " The Relation of External Evidence to the ...
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... Drama ( 1970 ) , 79-109 ) . That , too , may have influenced Day's view . Day is thought to have been the author of The Maid's Metamorphosis ( Paul's 1600 ) , a drama probably ridiculing and moralizing the use of boy actors in sexual ...
... Drama ( 1970 ) , 79-109 ) . That , too , may have influenced Day's view . Day is thought to have been the author of The Maid's Metamorphosis ( Paul's 1600 ) , a drama probably ridiculing and moralizing the use of boy actors in sexual ...
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