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Spectrums of Shakespearean crossdressing : the art of performing women
- Title
- Spectrums of Shakespearean crossdressing : the art of performing women / Courtney Bailey Parker.
- Author
- Bailey Parker, Courtney
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2020.
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Details
- Description
- 156 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 38
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 38.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-4418
- ISBN
- 9780367333416
- 0367333414
- 9780367853563 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781000735086 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781000735338 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781000735581 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019055781
- OCLC
- 1110488250
- Author
- Bailey Parker, Courtney, author.
- Title
- Spectrums of Shakespearean crossdressing : the art of performing women / Courtney Bailey Parker.
- Publisher
- New York : Routledge, 2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 38Routledge studies in Shakespeare ; 38.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1699
- Other Form:
- Online version: Bailey Parker, Courtney, Spectrums of Shakespearean crossdressing 1. New York : Routledge, 2020. 9780367853563 (DLC) 2019055782
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-4418