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Author Shapiro, Michael, 1938-

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

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1996.
©1994

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  828 S527YSHP    Check Shelf
Edition First paperback edition.
Description viii, 282 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-275) and index.
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.
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- To 1625.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
Theater -- Casting -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Theater -- Casting -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Child actors -- England -- History.
Gender identity in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Disguise in literature.
Women in literature.
ISBN 0472084054 paperback
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