Spectrums of Shakespearean Crossdressing: The Art of Performing Women

ISBN-13: 9781032087429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 168 str.

Courtney Bailey Parker

Opis

Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines the varied types of female characters in English Renaissance drama, drawing from a range of play texts themselves in order to investigate if evidence exists for varying performance practices for male-to-female crossdressing.

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Introduction: Spectrums of Theatrical Representation in Male-to-Female Crossdressing

Chapter One: The Disguised Heroine and Castiglione’s Shadow in Shakespeare’s Cross-Dressed Comedies

Chapter Two: An Amazon in the City: The Roaring Girl's Theatrical Memorialization of Mary Frith

Chapter Three: Representing the Tragic Noblewoman in The Duchess of Malfi, Romeo and Juliet, and Titus Andronicus

Chapter Four: Crossdressing for Comic Effect: The Remnants of Francis Flute's Pitiful Thisby in the New Globe Theatre's 2012 Twelfth Night

Chapter Five: Female Falstaffs: Identifying the Man-Woman in English Renaissance Drama

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Courtney Bailey Parker is an Assistant Professor of English & Theatre Studies at Greenville University in Greenville, Illinois. She earned her Ph.D. in English Literature from Baylor University and her B.A. in the same subject from Mercer University.