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Author Shapiro, Michael, 1938-

Title Gender in play on the Shakespearean stage : boy heroines and female pages / Michael Shapiro.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 1996.
©1994

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Edition First paperback edition.
Description 1 online resource (viii, 282 pages)
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Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-275) and index.
Contents A brief social history of female cross-dressing -- Male cross-dressing in playhouses and plays -- Cross-gender disguise plus cross-gender casting -- Bringing the page onstage: The two gentlemen of Verona -- Doubling of cross-gender disguise: The merchant of Venice -- Layers of disguise: As you like it -- Anxieties of intimacy: Twelfth night -- From center to periphery: Cymbeline.
Summary "Like other English Renaissance writers and dramatists, Shakespeare was attracted to the heroine in male disguise. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage examines the use of this type of character--man playing woman playing man--by framing five plays by Shakespeare against readings of some of the other "female page" plays written by other playwrights of the period. The many variations Michael Shapiro traces are placed in the context of female cross-dressing as a social phenomenon and in the context of female impersonation as the standard way of representing women on the Shakespearean stage. Shakespeare's use of the female page spanned his entire career: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (an early comedy), The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Twelfth Night (mature romantic comedies), and Cymbeline (a late romance). Shapiro deploys several modes of literary criticism to establish the distinctiveness of each of Shakespeare's five disguised heroine plays and to trace the subtle and ingenious variations on the motif by such writers as Greene, Fletcher, Chapman, Middleton, Jonson, and Ford. The popularity of the "female page" is examined as a playful literary and theatrical way of confronting, avoiding, or merely exploiting issues such as the place of women in a patriarchal culture and the representation of women on stage. Looking beyond and behind the stage for the cultural anxieties that cross-dressing London women being punished as prostitutes and speculation that the apprentices who played female roles in adult companies engaged in homoerotic practices. [This book] will appeal not only to scholars of Renaissance drama but to any reader interested in the historical construction and analysis of gender and sexuality, both on- and offstage"-- Back cover.
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxx96qPfyhwWrJChP9kXd
Shakespeare, William, (1564-1616) -- Personnages dans la littérature.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
Shakespeare, William.
Theater -- Casting -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Theater -- Casting -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Gender identity in the theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Gender identity in the theater -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Women in the theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Women in the theater -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Child actors -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Child actors -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Gender identity in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Disguise in literature.
Women in literature.
Cross-dressing in literature.
Théâtre -- Distribution artistique -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
Théâtre -- Distribution artistique -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
Identité de genre au théâtre -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
Identité de genre au théâtre -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
Femmes au théâtre -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
Femmes au théâtre -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
Enfants acteurs -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
Enfants acteurs -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
Identité de genre dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Déguisement dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Travestisme dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General
Child actors
Cross-dressing in literature
Disguise in literature
Gender identity in literature
Gender identity in the theater
Sex role in literature
Theater
Theater -- Casting
Women in literature
Women in the theater
England https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpYDdYvBpjXV6WpybK68C
Rôle selon le sexe -- Dans la littérature.
Théâtre -- Angleterre (GB) -- 16e siècle.
Théâtre -- Angleterre (GB) -- 17e siècle.
Théâtre -- Angleterre (GB) -- Identité sexuelle -- Dans la littérature.
Gender roles.
Role behavior.
Verkleidung
Drama
Frau
Gender identity in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Disguise in literature.
Women in literature.
Theater -- Casting -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
Theater -- Casting -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Child actors -- Great Britain -- History.
Englisch.
Chronological Term To 1699
Geschichte 1590-1642.
Indexed Term Theater -- England -- Casting -- History -- 16th century
Theater -- England -- Casting -- History -- 17th century
Children as actors -- England -- History
Gender identity in literature
Sex role in literature
Disguise in literature
Women in literature
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Shapiro, Michael, 1938- Gender in play on the Shakespearean stage. 1st pbk. ed. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1996, ©1994 (OCoLC)35839251
ISBN 9780472904242 (electronic bk.)
0472904248 (electronic bk.)
0472084054 (pbk.)
9780472084050 (pbk.)
0472105671
9780472105670
Standard No. AU@ 000074932571

 
    
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