Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England
by:
Stephen Orgel (author)
Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theater in the Renaissance? Stephen Orgel uses this question as the starting point of a fresh and stimulating exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society. At once provocative and witty,...
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Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theater in the Renaissance? Stephen Orgel uses this question as the starting point of a fresh and stimulating exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society. At once provocative and witty, lucid and stylish, Impersonations will reshape our understanding of the Renaissance theater, and make us rethink our own inadequate categories of gender, power and sexuality.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780521568425 (0521568420)
Publish date: April 19th 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 196
Edition language: English
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