Impersonations The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England

Name: Impersonations The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England
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ISBN: 9780521568425

ISBN-10: 0521568420

ISBN-13: 9780521568425

Edition: 1996

Authors: Stephen Orgel

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Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theatre in the Renaissance? Stephen Orgel uses this question as the starting point of a fresh and stimulating exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society. Why were boys used to play female roles in drama, and how did such cross-dressing impact on the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries? What was the place of women in the Renaissance theatre, either on the stage or in the audience? And what did society make of those women who significantly and successfully violated accepted gender boundaries? At once provocative and witty, lucid and stylish, Impersonations will reshape our…

Book details

List price: $50.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/29/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.50" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface



Introduction



The performance of desire



The eye of the beholder



Call me Ganymede



Masculine apparel



Mankind witches



Visible figures


Notes


Index