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Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Simone Chess
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-14 - Publisher: Routledge

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This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF cross
Language: en
Pages: 574
Authors: Simone Chess
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Finally, chapter four takes on the question of MTF crossdressing in a gendered economy. Subverting the idea of "traffic in women," I use examples of men who dre
Spectrums of Shakespearean Crossdressing
Language: en
Pages: 179
Authors: Courtney Bailey Parker
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-21 - Publisher: Routledge

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Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of s
Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Ari Friedlander
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-17 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The "rogue," a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature.
Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Jennifer Higginbotham
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-14 - Publisher: Springer

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This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Con