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 62
... speeches and Hamlet's ' either - this - or - that ' speeches , a difference significantly related with Hamlet's stress on oneness or wholeness and the King's counterfeiting . This difference disappears after the murder of Polonius ( cf ...
... speeches and Hamlet's ' either - this - or - that ' speeches , a difference significantly related with Hamlet's stress on oneness or wholeness and the King's counterfeiting . This difference disappears after the murder of Polonius ( cf ...
Page 297
... speeches both girls take so much ' boyish ' initiative that they begin to doubt their fellow's sex . Regarding ( 2 ) both girls are careful in approaching each other for fear of blushing , a female expression of emotions . Here , too ...
... speeches both girls take so much ' boyish ' initiative that they begin to doubt their fellow's sex . Regarding ( 2 ) both girls are careful in approaching each other for fear of blushing , a female expression of emotions . Here , too ...
Page 348
... speeches both expressing the wish that Bella Franca will not choose Guy as a lover . There is no stage direction , but her speeches cannot possibly have been spoken other than as " asides . " If they were not spoken as asides , the ...
... speeches both expressing the wish that Bella Franca will not choose Guy as a lover . There is no stage direction , but her speeches cannot possibly have been spoken other than as " asides . " If they were not spoken as asides , the ...
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