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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458054003321

Titolo

Shakespeare re-dressed [[electronic resource] ] : cross-gender casting in contemporary performance / / edited by James C. Bulman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison [NJ], : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8386-4331-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BulmanJames C. <1947->

Disciplina

792.9/5

Soggetti

Theater - Casting - History - 20th century

Sex role in the theater

Gender identity in the theater

Homosexuality and theater

Feminism and theater

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cross-dressing, drag, and passing: slippages in Shakespearean comedy / Jennifer Drouin -- Acting against the rules: remembering the eroticism of the Shakespearean boy actress / Roberta Barker -- Bringing Cheek by Jowl's As you like it out of the closet: the politics of queer theater / James C. Bulman -- Rosalind's breast / Cary M. Mazer -- Unaccommodated woman: Mabou Mines' Lear, the universal, and the particular in performance / P.A. Skantze -- Prospera's brave new world: cross-cast oppression and the four-fold player in the Georgia Shakespeare Festival's Tempest / Andrew James Hartley -- "A queen in a beard": a study of all-female Shakespeare companies / Melissa D. Aaron -- Re-dressing the balance: all-female Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre / Elizabeth Klett -- Constructing femininity in the new Globe's all-male Antony and Cleopatra / Robert Conkie -- Performing gender at the Globe: the technologies of the cross-dressed actor / Judith Rose -- Unsex me here: male cross-dressing at the new Globe / James C. Bulman.