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Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages » (New Edition)

Authors: Michael Shapiro
ISBN-13: 9780472084050, ISBN-10: 0472084054
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date Published: September 1996
Edition: New Edition

Cross-dressing in Shakespeare: a context for Elizabethan gender studies

	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England
Ch. 1	A Brief Social History of Female Cross-Dressing	15
Ch. 2	Male Cross-Dressing in Playhouses and Plays	29
Ch. 3	Cross-Gender Disguise plus Cross-Gender Casting	49
Pt. 2	Dramaturgical Variations on Variations
Ch. 4	Bringing the Page Onstage: The Two Gentlemen of Verona	65
Ch. 5	Doubling Cross Gender Disguise: The Merchant Venice	93
Ch. 6	Layers of Disguise: As You Like it	119
Ch. 7	Anxieties of Intimacy: Twelfth Night	143
Ch. 8	From Center to Periphery: Cymbeline	173
	Epilogue	199
	Appendix A: Sources, Analogues, and Models	207
	Appendix B: Chronological List of Plays with Heroines in Male Disguise	221
	Appendix C: Legal Records of Cross-Dressing	225
	Notes	235
	Index	277