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 203
... relationship between men rather than between men and women counts , for Votario ( ironically ) professes to Anselmo : Your friendship , sir , Is the sweet mistress that I only serve ; I prize the roughness of a man's embrace Before the ...
... relationship between men rather than between men and women counts , for Votario ( ironically ) professes to Anselmo : Your friendship , sir , Is the sweet mistress that I only serve ; I prize the roughness of a man's embrace Before the ...
Page 378
... relationship Orlando has with a person in the play and that the particular position of the snake has something to say about the nature of the relationship between that person and Orlando . As such , the animals can be explained as ...
... relationship Orlando has with a person in the play and that the particular position of the snake has something to say about the nature of the relationship between that person and Orlando . As such , the animals can be explained as ...
Page 419
... relationship at the same time with an act recognizable as ' usury indirect ' , a loan formally free of interest , but which has to be paid back with extra gifts and services added . The loan of money represents his claim on Sebastian ...
... relationship at the same time with an act recognizable as ' usury indirect ' , a loan formally free of interest , but which has to be paid back with extra gifts and services added . The loan of money represents his claim on Sebastian ...
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