Courtney Bailey Parker

Spectrums of Shakespearean Crossdressing (eBook, ePUB)

The Art of Performing Women

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines the varied types of female characters in English Renaissance drama, drawing from a range of play texts themselves in order to investigate if evidence exists for varying performance practices for male-to-female crossdressing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000735581
• Artikelnr.: 57940236

Autorenporträt

Courtney Bailey Parker is an Assistant Professor of English & Theatre Studies at Greenville University in Greenville, Illinois. She earned her Ph.D. in English Literature from Baylor University and her B.A. in the same subject from Mercer University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Spectrums of Theatrical Representation in Male-to-Female
Crossdressing
Chapter One: The Disguised Heroine and Castiglione's Shadow in
Shakespeare's Cross-Dressed Comedies
Chapter Two: An Amazon in the City: The Roaring Girl's Theatrical
Memorialization of Mary Frith
Chapter Three: Representing the Tragic Noblewoman in The Duchess of Malfi,
Romeo and Juliet, and Titus Andronicus
Chapter Four: Crossdressing for Comic Effect: The Remnants of Francis
Flute's Pitiful Thisby in the New Globe Theatre's 2012 Twelfth Night
Chapter Five: Female Falstaffs: Identifying the Man-Woman in English
Renaissance Drama
Coda
References