Men in Women's Clothing

Anti-theatricality and Effeminization, 1579–1642

By:

Laura Levine

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

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In 1579 a leading dramatic critic made the curious remark that theatre 'effeminated' the mind. Four years later another insisted that male actors who wore women's clothing could literally 'adulterate' male gender. In a tract which may have hastened the closing of the theatres in the mid-seventeenth century, William Prynne described a warrior whom women's clothing had caused to 'degenerate' into a woman. How can we account for these persistent anxieties and their effect on the work of Renaissance playwrights, simultaneously haunted by such fears and obsessively intent on coming to terms with them?

Release date Australia

October 13th, 1994

Author

Laura Levine

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

196

Series

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x228x12

ISBN-13

9780521466271

Product ID

3177611

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