Using the word comedienne instead of comedian can be seen as an example of markedness.

What is Death / But Life in act? How should the Unteeming Grave / Be victor over thee, / Mother, a mother of men?

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When deniability is impossible, dissociation is the way, and the past exonerative allows the actor to separate himself from the act.