| Description |
x, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: how easy is a bush suppos'd a bear -- 1. Much virtue in if: Shakespeare's cross-dressed boy-actresses and the non-illusory stage -- 2. The New Drama and the New Woman: reconstructing Ibsen's realism -- 3. Materialist girl: The Good Person of Szechwan and making gender strange -- 4. Queering the canon: Azoi toot a Yid -- 5. Three canonical crossings. Cracking nature's mold: Mabou Mines re-engenders Lear. People don't do such things: Charles Ludlam's Hedda. Epic fornications: Bloolips and Split Britches do Tennessee -- Epilogue: not just a passing fancy: notes on butch |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-200) and index |
| Subject |
Drama -- History and criticism.
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Sex role in literature.
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Theater, Yiddish.
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Women in literature.
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| LC no. |
97002805 |
| ISBN |
041515720X (hbk : acid-free paper) |
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0415157218 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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