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  1. SPECTRUMS OF SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSDRESSING
    the art of performing women
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  ROUTLEDGE, [S.l.]

    Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Spectrums of Theatrical Representation in Male-to-Female Crossdressing; 1 The Disguised Heroine and Castiglione's Shadow... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    Palucca-Hochschule für Tanz Dresden, Bibliothek
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    Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Spectrums of Theatrical Representation in Male-to-Female Crossdressing; 1 The Disguised Heroine and Castiglione's Shadow in Shakespeare's Cross-Dressed Comedies; 2 An Amazon in the City: The Roaring Girl's Theatrical Memorialization of Mary Frith; 3 Representing the Tragic Noblewoman in The Duchess of Malfi, Romeo and Juliet, and Titus Andronicus

     

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  2. Spectrums of Shakespearean Crossdressing
    The Art of Performing Women
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  ROUTLEDGE, [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing... more

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    TU Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek - Stadtmitte
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    Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines these 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. This book argues for a reading of the representation of female characters on the English Renaissance stage that not only suggests categorizing crossdressing along a spectrum of theatrical artifice, but also explores how this range of artifice enriches our understanding of the plays. The scholarship surrounding cross-dressing rarely makes this distinction, since in our study of early modern plays we tend to accept as a matter of course that all crossdressing was essentially the same. The basis of Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing is that it was not

     

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  3. SPECTRUMS OF SHAKESPEAREAN CROSSDRESSING
    the art of performing women
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  ROUTLEDGE, [S.l.]

    Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Spectrums of Theatrical Representation in Male-to-Female Crossdressing; 1 The Disguised Heroine and Castiglione's Shadow... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Spectrums of Theatrical Representation in Male-to-Female Crossdressing; 1 The Disguised Heroine and Castiglione's Shadow in Shakespeare's Cross-Dressed Comedies; 2 An Amazon in the City: The Roaring Girl's Theatrical Memorialization of Mary Frith; 3 Representing the Tragic Noblewoman in The Duchess of Malfi, Romeo and Juliet, and Titus Andronicus

     

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