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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... play about the deposition of Richard II in 1601. Three followers of Essex , the two Percies and Lord Mounteagle , paid two pounds extra to get the play " of the deposyng and kyllyng of Kyng Richard the Second to be played the Saturday ...
... play about the deposition of Richard II in 1601. Three followers of Essex , the two Percies and Lord Mounteagle , paid two pounds extra to get the play " of the deposyng and kyllyng of Kyng Richard the Second to be played the Saturday ...
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... play . Robinson briefly describes the hall in which the play was performed and the main action : " in the silence of the night there is exhibited on the stage how King Tereus devours his son , slain and prepared by his wife Progne on ...
... play . Robinson briefly describes the hall in which the play was performed and the main action : " in the silence of the night there is exhibited on the stage how King Tereus devours his son , slain and prepared by his wife Progne on ...
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... play on or a speaker of another person's messages . The " heart of my mystery " ( 1. 357 ) may signify ' playing ' which is more difficult than " lying " ( 1. 348 , ' lying ' possibly punning on making poetry ) . " The context of ...
... play on or a speaker of another person's messages . The " heart of my mystery " ( 1. 357 ) may signify ' playing ' which is more difficult than " lying " ( 1. 348 , ' lying ' possibly punning on making poetry ) . " The context of ...
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