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- Title
The Theatricality of Transformation: cross-dressing, sexual misdemeanour and gender/sexuality spectra on the Elizabethan stage, Bridewell Hospital Court Records, and the Repertories of the Court of the Aldermen, 1574-1607.
- Authors
Gorman, Sara
- Abstract
The article focuses on cross-dressing, sexual misdemeanor and gender/sexuality spectra on the Elizabethan stage. It states that critics have re-imagined cross-dressing on the Elizabethan stage as a phenomenon always within patriarchal structures. It also notes that in the process of re-imagining gender in Elizabethan theatre, many critics have re-constructed it in a fashion, influenced by the discourse of modern gender and sexuality. It also notes that critics have offered alternatives to the assumption that staged cross-dressing always interacts transgressively or obediently with patriarchal structures.
- Subjects
GENDER; FASHION; EARLY modern English drama; PERFORMING arts; ELIZABETHAN art; LITERATURE
- Publication
Early Modern Literary Studies, 2008, Vol 13, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1201-2459
- Publication type
Literary Criticism