Gender in play on the Shakespearean stage : boy heroines and female pages / Michael Shapiro.
1996
PR3095 .S524 1996 (Mapit)
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Title
Gender in play on the Shakespearean stage : boy heroines and female pages / Michael Shapiro.
Author
Shapiro, Michael, 1938-
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
ISBN
9780472084050 (pbk.)
0472084054 (pbk.)
0472084054 (pbk.)
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1996, c1994.
Language
English
Description
viii, 282 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PR3095 .S524 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification
822.3/3
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-275) and index.
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Table of 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.
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.