Shakespeare re-dressed : cross-gender casting in contemporary performance / edited by James C. Bulman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bulman, James C., 1947-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--1950-.

Theater--Casting--History--20th century.

Theater.

Sex role in the theater.

Gender identity in the theater.

Homosexuality and theater.

Feminism and theater.

Theater--Casting.

History.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2008]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780838641149

0838641148

OCLC:

122974297