Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage : Boy Heroines and Female Pages /

"Like other English Renaissance writers and dramatists, Shakespeare was attracted to the heroine in male disguise. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage examines the use of this type of character--man playing woman playing man--by framing five plays by Shakespeare against readings of some of the...

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Autor Principal: Shapiro, Michael, 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Edición:First paperback edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • A brief social history of female cross-dressing
  • Male cross-dressing in playhouses and plays
  • Cross-gender disguise plus cross-gender casting
  • Bringing the page onstage: The two gentlemen of Verona
  • Doubling of cross-gender disguise: The merchant of Venice
  • Layers of disguise: As you like it
  • Anxieties of intimacy: Twelfth night
  • From center to periphery: Cymbeline.