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 353
... example of Shakespeare's general appeal , or of his slight off - handedness in dealing with his audience's taste . Such an approach seems to plead that Shakespeare's comedies at the turn of the century carry names devaluing their ...
... example of Shakespeare's general appeal , or of his slight off - handedness in dealing with his audience's taste . Such an approach seems to plead that Shakespeare's comedies at the turn of the century carry names devaluing their ...
Page 371
... example in the kiss , the wooing , the marriage , the promise of sincerity , all to be found in 4.1 . He is then forced back to his original point of view . There is also the question of whether an audience has the same problem as ...
... example in the kiss , the wooing , the marriage , the promise of sincerity , all to be found in 4.1 . He is then forced back to his original point of view . There is also the question of whether an audience has the same problem as ...
Page 427
... examples . Hoskyns gives an example in his " Tafetta Speech " in the Middle Temple Revels of 1597-98 . Jonson repeatedly comments on the social aspects of literacy and focusses on persons speaking ' the right or wrong book ' . Thus in ...
... examples . Hoskyns gives an example in his " Tafetta Speech " in the Middle Temple Revels of 1597-98 . Jonson repeatedly comments on the social aspects of literacy and focusses on persons speaking ' the right or wrong book ' . Thus in ...
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