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 142
... Fall , as Drayton implies by his imagery in those lines of Peirs Gaveston in which Gaveston admits his physical seduction : " The Heavens to see my fall doth knit her brows , / The vaulty ground under my burdens groaneth . " 72 -- There ...
... Fall , as Drayton implies by his imagery in those lines of Peirs Gaveston in which Gaveston admits his physical seduction : " The Heavens to see my fall doth knit her brows , / The vaulty ground under my burdens groaneth . " 72 -- There ...
Page 486
... fall began to discourse of that his unnatrall crime , which hee had practiced manie yeares deserting the bedd of his Ladie , which hee accounted , as the Italians and Turkes doe , a poore & meane pleasure in respect of the other ; & it ...
... fall began to discourse of that his unnatrall crime , which hee had practiced manie yeares deserting the bedd of his Ladie , which hee accounted , as the Italians and Turkes doe , a poore & meane pleasure in respect of the other ; & it ...
Page 524
... fall 35 40 415 50 55 60 65 Without just weight to ballast it withal . Had'st thou not spoke to Death , and us'd the power Of thy enchanting tongue , at that first hour Of his assault , he had let fall his dart , And quite been charm'd ...
... fall 35 40 415 50 55 60 65 Without just weight to ballast it withal . Had'st thou not spoke to Death , and us'd the power Of thy enchanting tongue , at that first hour Of his assault , he had let fall his dart , And quite been charm'd ...
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