Gender in Play Gender Play Shakespearean Stage Boy

by Michael Shapiro

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Cross-dressing, sexual identity, and the performance of gender are among the most hotly discussed topics in contemporary cultural studies. A vital addition to the growing body of literature, this book is the most in-depth and historically contextual study to date of Shakespeare's uses of the heroine in male disguise--man-playing-woman-playing-man--in all its theatrical and social complexity. Shapiro's study centers on the five plays in which Shakespeare...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0472105671

ISBN13:9780472105670

Release Date:January 1994

Publisher:University of Michigan Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

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Arts, Music & Photography Drama Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Performing Arts Shakespeare Social Science Social Sciences

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