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Impersonations : the performance of gender in Shakespeare's England / Stephen Orgel.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3095 .O74 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orgel, Stephen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--To 1625.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Women.
- Theater--Casting--England--History--16th century.
- Theater.
- Theater--Casting.
- Child actors.
- History.
- England.
- Theater--Casting--England--History--17th century.
- Child actors--England--History.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Disguise in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, [England] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- 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 understanding of the Renaissance theatre, and make us rethink our own inadequate categories of gender, power and sexuality.
- Contents:
- 2 The performance of desire 10
- 3 The eye of the beholder 31
- 4 Call me Ganymede 53
- 5 Masculine apparel 83
- 6 Mankind witches 106
- 7 Visible figures 127.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-172) and index.
- ISBN:
- 052156056X
- 0521568420
- OCLC:
- 33281278
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