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 196
... honour ' in such cases . ' Honour ' in a direct sense means a woman's chastity , but it also means a man's feeling of integrity . The most far - going consequence is to conflate both senses of ' honour ' and consider unlawful rape of a ...
... honour ' in such cases . ' Honour ' in a direct sense means a woman's chastity , but it also means a man's feeling of integrity . The most far - going consequence is to conflate both senses of ' honour ' and consider unlawful rape of a ...
Page 353
... honour : honour is only a word , air , nothing no thing . In this comedy , written not long after 1 Henry IV , there is much ado about nothing . Many words and passions are spent on nothing , a word , " honour , " whilst the substance ...
... honour : honour is only a word , air , nothing no thing . In this comedy , written not long after 1 Henry IV , there is much ado about nothing . Many words and passions are spent on nothing , a word , " honour , " whilst the substance ...
Page 465
... honour , Sir , said he , and goes Leaving a riddle , was enough to pose The crafty Oedipous , for I could see Nor mayde , nor honour , sure noe honesty . ( The poem is in the British Museum MS ( Add . MS 11811 ) ascribed to Randolph ...
... honour , Sir , said he , and goes Leaving a riddle , was enough to pose The crafty Oedipous , for I could see Nor mayde , nor honour , sure noe honesty . ( The poem is in the British Museum MS ( Add . MS 11811 ) ascribed to Randolph ...
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