(Re)Defining Gender in Early Modern English Drama: Power, Sexualities and Ideologies in Text and Performance

ISBN-13: 9783034342520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 258 str.

Laura Martínez-García; María José Álvarez-Faedo

Opis

This book studies dramatic texts, dedications, autobiographies, adaptations and performative practices, to prove that the boundaries between on and off stage performances of gender are blurred. The limits that separate theatre and life are highly permeable and the relations between both are bidirectional: the performativity of gender and identity.

Spis treści

1. Introduction
2. Negotiating Gender Off Stage: Patronesses, Celebrities And Playwrights
3. Women Acting: Performance, Identity And Power
4. Men On Stage: Buttressing And Questioning Notions Of Manhood
5. Women Rewriting Men: Aphra Behn on Masculinity

O autorze

Laura Martínez-García is a lecturer at the University of Oviedo (Spain). Her research focuses on the constructions of gender in 17thcentury English drama written by female playwrights as well as their views on Anglo-Iberian relations.