Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England

by Stephen Orgel

Book Overview

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...

• 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"