Enacting gender on the English Renaissance stage / edited by Viviana Comensoli & Anne Russell.

Other author Comensoli, Viviana.
Other author Russell, Anne, 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1999.
Description270 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
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.

Contents Making defect perfection : Shakespeare and the one-sex model / Janet Adelman -- "To laugh with open throate" : mad lovers, theatrical cures, and gendered bodies in Jacobean drama / Alan Walworth -- Transmigrations : crossing regional and gender boundaries in Antony and Cleopatra / Mary Floyd-Wilson -- Marlowe's ganymede / Joyce Green MacDonald -- Subjectivity, time, and gender in Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, and Othello / R.L. Kesler -- Theaters, households, and a "kind of history" in Elizabeth Cary's The tragedy of Mariam / Rosemary Kegl -- Playing the "scene self" : Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's The concealed fancies / Alison Findlay -- The introduction of actresses in England : delay or defensiveness? / Michael Shapiro -- Staging the female playgoer : gender in Shakespeare's onstage audiences / Laurie E. Osborne -- Gender, rhetoric, and performance in John Webster's The white devil / Christina Luckyj.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-257) and index.
LCCN 98008991
ISBN0252024230 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN0252067304 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PR658.S42 E63 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold