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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... role , but suffers a role to act upon him . 47 The elegy wavers between the symbiotic relationship of an actor with his characters ( uniqueness of acting a character ) , the power of the character on the personality of the actor ...
... role , but suffers a role to act upon him . 47 The elegy wavers between the symbiotic relationship of an actor with his characters ( uniqueness of acting a character ) , the power of the character on the personality of the actor ...
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... role ' implies a controlling , dramatizing vehicle that directs such roles . Today these are expressed in abstractions that depend on our social psychology , which differs from Renaissance philosophy . The ' acting of roles ' in the ...
... role ' implies a controlling , dramatizing vehicle that directs such roles . Today these are expressed in abstractions that depend on our social psychology , which differs from Renaissance philosophy . The ' acting of roles ' in the ...
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... roles are only shapes , played before God . Because reality is layered , not even the fool escapes from the temporality of his role on earth , even though he seems able , in human esteem , to avert social role playing and , therefore ...
... roles are only shapes , played before God . Because reality is layered , not even the fool escapes from the temporality of his role on earth , even though he seems able , in human esteem , to avert social role playing and , therefore ...
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