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
... marriage with Anselmo , Lothario shuns their house , " for a married man's honour is so delicate and tender a thing , as it seems it may be sometimes impayred even by very bretherns , and how much more by friends . Anselmo noted this ...
... marriage with Anselmo , Lothario shuns their house , " for a married man's honour is so delicate and tender a thing , as it seems it may be sometimes impayred even by very bretherns , and how much more by friends . Anselmo noted this ...
Page 231
... marriage itself . Penelope herself abhorred being married to Rich , a marriage into which she was forced against her will . It would be appropriate to such a situation for friends to allude negatively to both the marriage and Rich ...
... marriage itself . Penelope herself abhorred being married to Rich , a marriage into which she was forced against her will . It would be appropriate to such a situation for friends to allude negatively to both the marriage and Rich ...
Page 288
... married love . The stage image of Cesario / Viola , therefore , did not cohere to the way ideal married love was traditionally visualized . Matrimonii Typus , often invoked to explain the ' maid - and - man ' passage in Twelfth Night ...
... married love . The stage image of Cesario / Viola , therefore , did not cohere to the way ideal married love was traditionally visualized . Matrimonii Typus , often invoked to explain the ' maid - and - man ' passage in Twelfth Night ...
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