Shakespeare's Women: Performance and Conception

by David Mann and David Mann

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In this book, David Mann examines the influence of the Elizabethan cross-dressed tradition on the performance and conception of Shakespeare's female roles through an analysis of all 205 extant plays written for the adult theatre. The study provides both an historical context, showing how performance practice developed in the era before Shakespeare, and a comparative one, in revealing how dramatists in general treated their female characters and the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0521882133

ISBN13:9780521882132

Release Date:March 2008

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.36 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"

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