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 127
... thoughts would oversimplify the issue for two reasons . First , they oversimplify at the most basic semantic level : ' love ' , in early modern English was no opposition to ' friendship ' ; the word ' love ' was used indiscriminately ...
... thoughts would oversimplify the issue for two reasons . First , they oversimplify at the most basic semantic level : ' love ' , in early modern English was no opposition to ' friendship ' ; the word ' love ' was used indiscriminately ...
Page 255
... thought " to feel seduced by a male . But the reader is teased into the same thoughts . A reader may , of course , deduce the abbott's original sex from his affections , but this is not necessarily so . The narrator may also tease him ...
... thought " to feel seduced by a male . But the reader is teased into the same thoughts . A reader may , of course , deduce the abbott's original sex from his affections , but this is not necessarily so . The narrator may also tease him ...
Page 544
... thoughts , Or a musician but to sing my thoughts , Or anything but what I am . - Sing't o'er once more , My grief's a boundless sea that hath no shore . ( 11. 104-10 ) To sing and to stop the music because of its having lost its ...
... thoughts , Or a musician but to sing my thoughts , Or anything but what I am . - Sing't o'er once more , My grief's a boundless sea that hath no shore . ( 11. 104-10 ) To sing and to stop the music because of its having lost its ...
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