“If I were a woman”: the performativity of gender in Shakespeare

This essay argues that the current celebration of transgender performance, such as in Northern Broadsides’ As You Like It (2022), also resonates historically in the experiences of boy actors who played women’s roles in Shakespeare’s company. It outlines the different kinds of contracts and apprentic...

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1. Verfasser:	Findlay, Alison
Format:	Artigo
Sprache:	Inglês
Veröffentlicht:	Société Française Shakespeare 2023
Schlagworte:	genre apprentissage performativité transgenre jeune acteur perte gender boy actors performativity transgender loss apprenticeship
Online-Zugang:	https://doi.org/10.4000/shakespeare.7778 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/vslc https://journals.openedition.org/shakespeare/7778
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