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1 online resource |
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Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 38 |
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Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 38.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Spectrums of Theatrical Representation in Male-to-Female Crossdressing; 1 The Disguised Heroine and Castiglione's Shadow in Shakespeare's Cross-Dressed Comedies; 2 An Amazon in the City: The Roaring Girl's Theatrical Memorialization of Mary Frith; 3 Representing the Tragic Noblewoman in The Duchess of Malfi, Romeo and Juliet, and Titus Andronicus |
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4 Crossdressing for Comic Effect: The Remnants of Francis Flute's Pitiful Thisby in the New Globe Theatre's 2012 Twelfth Night5 Female Falstaffs: Identifying the Man-Woman in English Renaissance Drama; Coda; References; Index |
| Summary |
Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines these varied types of female characters in English Renaissance drama, drawing from a range of play texts themselves in order to investigate if evidence exists for varying performance practices for male-to-female crossdressing. This book argues for a reading of the representation of female characters on the English Renaissance stage that not only suggests categorizing crossdressing along a spectrum of theatrical artifice, but also explores how this range of artifice enriches our understanding of the plays. The scholarship surrounding cross-dressing rarely makes this distinction, since in our study of early modern plays we tend to accept as a matter of course that all crossdressing was essentially the same. The basis of Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing is that it was not |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Courtney Bailey Parker is an Assistant Professor of English & Theatre Studies at Greenville University in Greenville, Illinois. She earned her Ph. D. in English Literature from Baylor University and her B.A. in the same subject from Mercer University |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 09, 2019) |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Cross-dressing
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Gender identity in the theater.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Cross-dressing
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Gender identity in the theater
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Theater
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000735086 |
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1000735087 |
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9780367853563 |
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0367853566 |
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9781000735338 |
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1000735338 |
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9781000735581 |
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1000735583 |
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