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 231
... object ( although firmly on the earth ) ' and ' artificial female beauty , earthly love - object ( although placed among the stars ) ' ? Such a shift ( whether directly due to strict intertextuality with Sidney's poetry or with ...
... object ( although firmly on the earth ) ' and ' artificial female beauty , earthly love - object ( although placed among the stars ) ' ? Such a shift ( whether directly due to strict intertextuality with Sidney's poetry or with ...
Page 287
... object not only because he suspected it to be female , but when the object admits to being a female that the sexual arousal was also present when the object was a boy . As a boy its appeal was simply more risky , not essentially ...
... object not only because he suspected it to be female , but when the object admits to being a female that the sexual arousal was also present when the object was a boy . As a boy its appeal was simply more risky , not essentially ...
Page 297
... object escapes being defined as the defining subject is also ambiguous and the interaction between both fickle object and fickle subject , mutually deceiving each other , result in the lack of a clear idea about the perceived object ...
... object escapes being defined as the defining subject is also ambiguous and the interaction between both fickle object and fickle subject , mutually deceiving each other , result in the lack of a clear idea about the perceived object ...
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