Shakespeare re-dressed
Subtitle: cross-gender casting in contemporary performance
By: edited by James C. Bulman.
Contributors: Bulman, James C., 1947-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838641149
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Dramatic production; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- 1950-; Theater -- Casting -- History -- 20th century; Sex role in the theater; Gender identity in the theater; Homosexuality and theater; Feminism and theater
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cross-dressing, drag, and passing: slippages in Shakespearean comedy / Jennifer Drouin; title: Acting against the rules: remembering the eroticism of the Shakespearean boy actress / Roberta Barker; title: Bringing Cheek by Jowl's As you like it out of the closet: the politics of queer theater / James C. Bulman; title: Rosalind's breast / Cary M. Mazer; title: Unaccommodated woman: Mabou Mines' Lear, the universal, and the particular in performance / P. A. Skantze; title: Prospera's brave new world: cross-cast oppression and the four-fold player in the Georgia Shakespeare Festival's Tempest / Andrew James Hartley; title: "A queen in a beard": a study of all-female Shakespeare companies / Melissa D. Aaron; title: Re-dressing the balance: all-female Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre / Elizabeth Klett; title: Constructing femininity in the new Globe's all-male Antony and Cleopatra / Robert Conkie; title: Performing gender at the Globe: the technologies of the cross-dressed actor / Judith Rose; title: Unsex me here: male cross-dressing at the new Globe / James C. Bulman.