Shakespeare Re-Dressed : Cross-Gender Casting in Contemporary Performance.
Bulman, James C.
Shakespeare Re-Dressed : Cross-Gender Casting in Contemporary Performance. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (255 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cross-Dressing, Drag, and Passing: Slippages in Shakespearean Comedy -- Acting against the Rules Remembering the Eroticism of the Shakespearean Boy Actress -- Bringing Cheek by Jowl's As You Like It Out of the Closet: The Politics of Queer Theater -- Rosalind's Breast -- Unaccommodated Woman: Mabou Mines' Lear, the Universal, and the Particular in Performance -- Prospera's Brave New World: Cross-Cast Oppression and the Four-Fold Player in the Georgia Shakespeare Festival's Tempest -- A Queen in a Beard": A Study of All-Female Shakespeare Companies -- Re-dressing the Balance: All-Female Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre -- Constructing Femininity in the New Globe's All-Male Antony and Cleopatra -- Performing Gender at the Globe: The Technologies of the Cross-Dressed Actor -- Unsex Me Here: Male Cross- Dressing at the New Globe -- Contributors -- Index.
9780838643310
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- 1950-.
Theater -- Casting -- History -- 20th century.
Sex role in the theater.
Gender identity in the theater.
Homosexuality and theater.
Feminism and theater.
Electronic books.
PR3100 -- .S55 2008eb
792.9/5
Shakespeare Re-Dressed : Cross-Gender Casting in Contemporary Performance. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (255 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cross-Dressing, Drag, and Passing: Slippages in Shakespearean Comedy -- Acting against the Rules Remembering the Eroticism of the Shakespearean Boy Actress -- Bringing Cheek by Jowl's As You Like It Out of the Closet: The Politics of Queer Theater -- Rosalind's Breast -- Unaccommodated Woman: Mabou Mines' Lear, the Universal, and the Particular in Performance -- Prospera's Brave New World: Cross-Cast Oppression and the Four-Fold Player in the Georgia Shakespeare Festival's Tempest -- A Queen in a Beard": A Study of All-Female Shakespeare Companies -- Re-dressing the Balance: All-Female Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre -- Constructing Femininity in the New Globe's All-Male Antony and Cleopatra -- Performing Gender at the Globe: The Technologies of the Cross-Dressed Actor -- Unsex Me Here: Male Cross- Dressing at the New Globe -- Contributors -- Index.
9780838643310
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- 1950-.
Theater -- Casting -- History -- 20th century.
Sex role in the theater.
Gender identity in the theater.
Homosexuality and theater.
Feminism and theater.
Electronic books.
PR3100 -- .S55 2008eb
792.9/5