Impersonations
Impersonations
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Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theater in the Renaissance? Stephen Orgel uses this question as the starting point of a fresh and stimulating exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society. At once provocative and witty, lucid and stylish, Impersonations will reshape our understanding of the Renaissance theater, and make us rethink our own inadequate categories of gender, power and sexuality.
- Stylish and provocative new book by leading scholar of Renaissance drama
- New insights into the phenomenon of all-male public theatre in Shakespeare's time
- Wide-ranging exploration of gender and cross-dressing in Renaissance drama and culture
Reviews & endorsements
"...the book is highly recommended for theater history, literature, and gender-studies collections. Detailed endnotes include many useful bibliographical references." J.W. Lafler, Choice
Product details
March 1996Paperback
9780521568425
196 pages
216 × 139 × 12 mm
0.25kg
19 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The performance of desire
- 3. The eye of the beholder
- 4. Call me Ganymede
- 5. Masculine apparel
- 6. Mankind witches
- 7. Visible figures.
