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 81
... stage realism ( external illusion ) , eschewing both formalism on stage or predominant audience actor - awareness for purposes of titillation . ii . Audience Response A precise account of the impact of the boy actor's person on stage ...
... stage realism ( external illusion ) , eschewing both formalism on stage or predominant audience actor - awareness for purposes of titillation . ii . Audience Response A precise account of the impact of the boy actor's person on stage ...
Page 83
... stage acting , Puritans stressed it . Only a few months before the staging of Ignoramus James had watched Jonson's Bartholomew Fair with its satire on the Puritans opposing stage plays . Jonson , of course , had relapsed to catholicism ...
... stage acting , Puritans stressed it . Only a few months before the staging of Ignoramus James had watched Jonson's Bartholomew Fair with its satire on the Puritans opposing stage plays . Jonson , of course , had relapsed to catholicism ...
Page 90
... stage disguises show that the skirt could be put over the breeches : Follywit dons skirts on stage in A Mad World My Masters , and Veramour wears breeches under a skirt in the final scene of The Honest Man's Fortune . Women disguisers ...
... stage disguises show that the skirt could be put over the breeches : Follywit dons skirts on stage in A Mad World My Masters , and Veramour wears breeches under a skirt in the final scene of The Honest Man's Fortune . Women disguisers ...
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