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Title Shakespeare re-dressed : cross-gender casting in contemporary performance / edited by James C. Bulman
Published Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2008]
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Description 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cross-dressing, drag, and passing: slippages in Shakespearean comedy / Jennifer Drouin -- Acting against the rules: remembering the eroticism of the Shakespearean boy actress / Roberta Barker -- Bringing Cheek by Jowl's As you like it out of the closet: the politics of queer theater / James C. Bulman -- Rosalind's breast / Cary M. Mazer -- Unaccommodated woman: Mabou Mines' Lear, the universal, and the particular in performance / P.A. Skantze -- Prospera's brave new world: cross-cast oppression and the four-fold player in the Georgia Shakespeare Festival's Tempest / Andrew James Hartley -- "A queen in a beard": a study of all-female Shakespeare companies / Melissa D. Aaron -- Re-dressing the balance: all-female Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre / Elizabeth Klett -- Constructing femininity in the new Globe's all-male Antony and Cleopatra / Robert Conkie -- Performing gender at the Globe: the technologies of the cross-dressed actor / Judith Rose -- Unsex me here: male cross-dressing at the new Globe / James C. Bulman
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- 1950-
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Theater -- Casting -- History -- 20th century
Sex role in the theater.
Gender identity in the theater.
Homosexuality and theater.
Feminism and theater.
Feminism and theater
Gender identity in the theater
Homosexuality and theater
Sex role in the theater
Theater
Theater -- Casting
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bulman, James C., 1947- editor.
LC no. 2007014742
ISBN 9780838643310
0838643310