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BL
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987423
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b741793
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Shapiro, Michael,1938-
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Gender in play on the Shakespearean stage : : boy heroines and female pages /\ Michael Shapiro.
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, [1994]
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viii, 282 pages ;; 24 cm
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0047210567
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: 0472084054
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: 0472105671
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: 9780047210563
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: 9780472084050
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: 9780472105670
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| Notes
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The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Characters.
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Dramatic production.
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Stage history-- To 1625.
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Börngen, ...
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Englisch, ...
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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Shakespeare, William,(1564-1616)-- Mise en scène-- Histoire-- 16e siècle.
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Shakespeare, William,(1564-1616)-- Personnages-- Femmes.
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.
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Shakespeare, William.
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Child actors-- England-- History-- 16th century.
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Child actors-- England-- History-- 17th century.
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Cross-dressing in literature.
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Disguise in literature.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Theater-- Casting-- England-- History-- 16th century.
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Theater-- Casting-- England-- History-- 17th century.
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Women in literature.
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Child actors.
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Déguisement-- Dans la littérature.
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Disguise in literature.
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Drama
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Enfants acteurs.
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Femmes-- Dans la littérature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Geschlechterrolle
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Geschlechtertausch
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Identité (philosophie)-- Dans la littérature.
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Identité sexuelle-- Dans la littérature.
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Relations with actors.
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Rôle selon le sexe-- Dans la littérature.
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Rolle
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Sex role in literature.
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Theater
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Theater-- Casting.
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Theater.
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Verkleidung
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Women in literature.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Toneelspelers.
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Travestie.
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England.
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| Dewey Classification
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822.3/3
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| LC Classification
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PR3095.S524 1994
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18.05bcl
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24.11bcl
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HI 3385rvk
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