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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... Fair the semantic confusion is even greater . The play itself imitates a commonwealth in little , including its disguised prince . As befits commonwealths in little , there is a little theatre that presents belittled actors : choristers ...
... Fair the semantic confusion is even greater . The play itself imitates a commonwealth in little , including its disguised prince . As befits commonwealths in little , there is a little theatre that presents belittled actors : choristers ...
Page 526
... fair wordes , and promised them pardon and that all should be well yf they wold discharge their Army , upon whose promises and faier Speaches they did yt , and Affter the king byd them all to A banquet and soe betraid them And Cut of ...
... fair wordes , and promised them pardon and that all should be well yf they wold discharge their Army , upon whose promises and faier Speaches they did yt , and Affter the king byd them all to A banquet and soe betraid them And Cut of ...
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... Fair Maid of the Exchange Mucedorus Heywood 1602 anon . 1590 principal comoedians 1616 Stansby The Alchemist Jonson 1610 principal comoedians 1616 Stansby Cynthia's Revels Jonson 1601 principal comoedians 1616 Stansby Epicoene Jonson ...
... Fair Maid of the Exchange Mucedorus Heywood 1602 anon . 1590 principal comoedians 1616 Stansby The Alchemist Jonson 1610 principal comoedians 1616 Stansby Cynthia's Revels Jonson 1601 principal comoedians 1616 Stansby Epicoene Jonson ...
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