Enacting gender on the English Renaissance stage /
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Imprint: | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999. |
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Description: | 270 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism. Sex role in literature. English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism. Gender identity in literature. Renaissance -- England. Women in literature. Men in literature. English drama. English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan. Gender identity in literature. Men in literature. Renaissance. Sex role in literature. Women in literature. England. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3564669 |
Summary: | Including fresh approaches to issues such as the one-sex model, cross-dressing, race and region, and women as the authors, subjects, and objects of theatrical representation, this collection of new essays engages the diverse range of current debates over gender in the English Renaissance theater.<p>Scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain investigate early modern theatrical practices and works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, and Webster, as well as less-studied texts by dramatists such as Elizabeth Cary, Richard Brome, and Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley |
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Physical Description: | 270 p. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-257) and index. |
ISBN: | 0252024230 (cloth : acid-free paper) 0252067304 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |