Scholarly study of gender performance in Shakespeare’s England, exploring boy actors, cross-dressing, and Renaissance ideas of sexuality.
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Scholarly study of gender performance in Shakespeare’s England, exploring boy actors, cross-dressing, and Renaissance ideas of sexuality.
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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
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Scholarly discussion of desire, eroticism, and sexuality in drama
Violence & gore
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Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Central focus on homoeroticism, boy actors, and gender performance
Religious content
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References to religious anti-theatrical attitudes in the period
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Historical discussion of witches in Renaissance gender culture
Political content
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Central analysis of gender, power, patriarchy, and sexuality
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Discusses women’s constrained status under Renaissance patriarchy
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