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It's a drag : cross-dressing in performance
- Title
- It's a drag : cross-dressing in performance / Janet Tennant.
- Author
- Tennant, Janet
- Publication
- Guilford, Connecticut : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, [2022]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MWET 22-4310 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Description
- 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm
- Summary
- "It's a Drag: Cross-Dressing in Performance looks at how performers over the whole period of theatrical history have cross-dressed and why: to tell stories, to amuse, to create memorable alter-egos, to call attention to social and political issues, or merely for expediency. Janet Tennant considers the present and future, and whether the drive towards gender equality will render cross-dressing redundant"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-242) and index.
- Contents
- Overture and beginners -- Boys will be girls-will be boys? -- Restoration-a new world -- The lure of Shakespeare -- Witches, bitches and britches -- Leaping the divide -- Music hall and vaudeville -- War is a drag -- There is nothing like a dame -- The other dames -- Queening it -- Pretty women? Handsome men? -- Cross-dressing : an outdated concept?
- Call Number
- MWET 22-4310
- ISBN
- 9781493059058
- 149305905X
- LCCN
- 2021042526
- OCLC
- 1304834223
- Author
- Tennant, Janet, author.
- Title
- It's a drag : cross-dressing in performance / Janet Tennant.
- Publisher
- Guilford, Connecticut : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-242) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Tennant, Janet. It's a drag Guilford, Connecticut : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, an imprint of Globe Pequot, the trade division of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022] 9781493059065 (DLC) 2021042527
- Research Call Number
- MWET 22-4310