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Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 196

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: February 29, 1996

ISBN: 0521568420

ISBN 13: 9780521568425

Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 196

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: February 29, 1996

ISBN: 0521568420

ISBN 13: 9780521568425

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