Re-dressing the canon : essays on theater and gender / Alisa Solomon.

Author/creator Solomon, Alisa, 1956-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Descriptionx, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : how easy is a bush suppos'd a bear -- Much virtue in if : Shakespeare's cross-dressed boy-actresses and the non-illusory stage -- The new drama and the new woman : reconstructing Ibsen's realism -- Materialist girl : The good person of Szechwan and making gender strange -- Queering the canon : Azoi toot a yid -- Three canonical crossings. Cracking nature's mold : Mabou Mines re-engenders Lear ; People don't do such things : Charles Ludlam's Hedda ; Epic fornications : Bloolips and Split Britches do Tennessee -- Epilogue : not just a passing fancy : notes on butch.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-200) and index.
LCCN 97002805
ISBN041515720X (hbk : acid-free paper)
ISBN0415157218 (pbk : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1650.W65 S65 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold