Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England

By Stephen Orgel

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521568420

ISBN13:9780521568425

Release Date:February 1996

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:196 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

16th Century 17th Century Arts, Music & Photography British & Irish Drama English Literature Europe Gender Studies Humor & Entertainment Literature

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