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 399
... letters ( 1.2.71-85 . ) . As shown above , this same passage has intertextual links with Malvolio . The reverse of the letter trick occurs in Twelfth Night , where the lady is indeed nameless but where there is good reason to suggest ...
... letters ( 1.2.71-85 . ) . As shown above , this same passage has intertextual links with Malvolio . The reverse of the letter trick occurs in Twelfth Night , where the lady is indeed nameless but where there is good reason to suggest ...
Page 486
... letter to Burghley of January 1592 it appears that Baines and Marlowe both were at Flushing in the beginning of 1592 and that they set an English goldsmith to make an English coin . Baines betrayed the matter to Sidney , and the two ...
... letter to Burghley of January 1592 it appears that Baines and Marlowe both were at Flushing in the beginning of 1592 and that they set an English goldsmith to make an English coin . Baines betrayed the matter to Sidney , and the two ...
Page 528
... letter from one Brande presumably to Laud : Furthermore you should know , that last day certain vagrant French players who had been expelled from their own countrey and those women did attempt thereby giving just offence to all vertuous ...
... letter from one Brande presumably to Laud : Furthermore you should know , that last day certain vagrant French players who had been expelled from their own countrey and those women did attempt thereby giving just offence to all vertuous ...
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