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 101
... remark cannot have been meant to signal the audience to respond to a disguise as if it were only transvestism . Her remark refers to the theory of demoniacal transformation . Although Rosalind's remark at 3.2.191-93 does imply ...
... remark cannot have been meant to signal the audience to respond to a disguise as if it were only transvestism . Her remark refers to the theory of demoniacal transformation . Although Rosalind's remark at 3.2.191-93 does imply ...
Page 323
... remark , as the duke's reply shows , is a formality even though on stage Antonio and Shylock will probably not have ... remark also parallels a remark of Antonio . Antonio told Salerio that he had not trusted all his fortune to one ship ...
... remark , as the duke's reply shows , is a formality even though on stage Antonio and Shylock will probably not have ... remark also parallels a remark of Antonio . Antonio told Salerio that he had not trusted all his fortune to one ship ...
Page 505
... remark on the many ( presumed ) qualities of the Wise Woman : " This is no Trade , but a Mysterie ; and were I a Wise - woman , as indeed I am but a foolish Boy , I need not live by your service " ( p . 307 ) . The Wise Woman , of ...
... remark on the many ( presumed ) qualities of the Wise Woman : " This is no Trade , but a Mysterie ; and were I a Wise - woman , as indeed I am but a foolish Boy , I need not live by your service " ( p . 307 ) . The Wise Woman , of ...
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