Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage

by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix

Established as a popular convention during the English Restoration, the practice of women playing male roles reached its peak in America during the first half of the nineteenth century as actresses... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312223498
• ISBN13: 9780312223496
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.6"