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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... problems of the perception of theatrical performances . This involves such a problem as ' were the fictive persons in plays considered to be like persons in everyday life ' ? The concepts of ' realism ' and ' illusion ' are related to ...
... problems of the perception of theatrical performances . This involves such a problem as ' were the fictive persons in plays considered to be like persons in everyday life ' ? The concepts of ' realism ' and ' illusion ' are related to ...
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... problem as Orlando . The spectator can draw upon intellectual and visual cues in order to come to grips with this situation . A spectator can manipulate the percept Ganymede , and use contextual information , for example Celia's text ...
... problem as Orlando . The spectator can draw upon intellectual and visual cues in order to come to grips with this situation . A spectator can manipulate the percept Ganymede , and use contextual information , for example Celia's text ...
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... problem . Antonio's " adorations , " at the end of 2.1 , were invariably cut from the eighteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century . Kemble solved the problem of the stage business in Act 5. He gave Orsino an extra speech to set ...
... problem . Antonio's " adorations , " at the end of 2.1 , were invariably cut from the eighteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century . Kemble solved the problem of the stage business in Act 5. He gave Orsino an extra speech to set ...
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