Gender in play on the Shakespearean stage : boy heroines and female pages / Michael Shapiro.

Contents A brief social history of female cross-dressing -- Male cross-dressing in playhouses and plays -- Cross-gender disguise plus cross-gender casting -- Bringing the page onstage : The Two Gentlemen of Verona -- Doubling of cross-gender disguise : The Merchant of Venice -- Layers of disguise : As You Like It -- Anxieties of intimacy : Twelfth Night -- From center to periphery : Cymbeline.
Local noteLittle-290764--305130043703T
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 94034462
ISBN0472105671
ISBN0047210567

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Joyner General Stacks PR3095 .S524 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold