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... play ; / But , as it is with schoolboys , cannot say , I am cruel fearful . Pray , yet stay a while , / And let me look upon ye . No man smile ? / Then it goes hard , I see . " The audience is begged not to " hiss , and kill / Our ...
... play ; / But , as it is with schoolboys , cannot say , I am cruel fearful . Pray , yet stay a while , / And let me look upon ye . No man smile ? / Then it goes hard , I see . " The audience is begged not to " hiss , and kill / Our ...
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... play focussing primarily on women : when he is con- verted , discredited , or simply drops out of the play , he is intended ( not unlike the classical pharmakos or scapegoat ) to carry the doubts , fears , and antagonisms out of the ...
... play focussing primarily on women : when he is con- verted , discredited , or simply drops out of the play , he is intended ( not unlike the classical pharmakos or scapegoat ) to carry the doubts , fears , and antagonisms out of the ...
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... play's role reversals would lose power to pro- voke either laughter or thought . The existence of this play , in this form , is evidence that the Renaissance public was conversant both with formal debate about women and with a ...
... play's role reversals would lose power to pro- voke either laughter or thought . The existence of this play , in this form , is evidence that the Renaissance public was conversant both with formal debate about women and with a ...
Contents
Exordium I | 1 |
The Genre | 13 |
The Elizabethan Controversy | 49 |
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