Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England by Stephen Orgel

Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England

Stephen Orgel

196 pages 1996

2 editions

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Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theatre in the Renaissance? This study uses this question as the starting point of a fresh exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society.

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