Gender in Play Gender Play Shakespearean Stage Boy

by Michael Shapiro

Book Overview

Cross-dressing, sexual identity, and the performance of gender are among the most hotly discussed topics in contemporary cultural studies. A vital addition to the growing body of literature, this book is the most in-depth and historically contextual study to date of Shakespeare's uses of the heroine in male disguise--man-playing-woman-playing-man--in all its theatrical and social complexity. Shapiro's study centers on the five plays in which Shakespeare...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472105671
• ISBN13: 9780472105670
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.