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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... reading public . His translation is not expunged ( it is actually a translation from the French of Amyot ) . It focusses attention on the sexual content of the essay on love . Holland warns his readers in an introductory preface that ...
... reading public . His translation is not expunged ( it is actually a translation from the French of Amyot ) . It focusses attention on the sexual content of the essay on love . Holland warns his readers in an introductory preface that ...
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... readers , " Barnfield comments on the not unfavourable reception of the poems , which inspired his new cycle , but he ... reading filth into the poems . Both groups of readers need not have taken the example ( Virgil ) as a justification ...
... readers , " Barnfield comments on the not unfavourable reception of the poems , which inspired his new cycle , but he ... reading filth into the poems . Both groups of readers need not have taken the example ( Virgil ) as a justification ...
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... reader may have perceived the author's intentions immediately , I did not when reading the Arcadia for the first time . The Arcadia shows a diversity of narrative techniques for sustaining sexual disguise that varies from the ...
... reader may have perceived the author's intentions immediately , I did not when reading the Arcadia for the first time . The Arcadia shows a diversity of narrative techniques for sustaining sexual disguise that varies from the ...
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