1st Edition

Spectrums of Shakespearean Crossdressing The Art of Performing Women

By Courtney Bailey Parker Copyright 2020
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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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Biography

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.