Oedipus the Queen

All roles on the Athenian stage were played by men. It has been generally overlooked in this context that the sex/gender system of ancient Athens was not the same as our own. I provide a new framework for understanding the tradition of transvestite theatre in Athens by looking at three moments when Sophoclean heroes are made feminine. Each of my texts demonstrates an understanding of cross-gendering that is not linked to homosexuality and establishes a broader semantic range for the practice of cross-gendering than does modern drag performance

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Drag · Homosexuality · Literature · Masculinity · Queen (butterfly · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Engineering · Gender Studies · History · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theatre and Performance Studies

• How to Do the History of Homosexuality

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• Vested Interests

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• Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

  Open Access•Mary Whitlock Blundell•Helping Friends and Harming Enemies•1989

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• Before sexuality

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• Goddesses, whores, wives and slaves

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• Tragedy, in relation to Aristotle's Poetics

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• The Constraints of Desire

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• Thinking Men

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• Gender Trouble

  Judith Butler•Gender Trouble•2011

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• The Garden of Priapus

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• Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae

  Ann N Michelini, Charles Segal•The Classical World•1984

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• Deianeira's Robe

  Dora C Pozzi•Mnemosyne•1994

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• The Position of Women in Athens in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries

  A W Gomme•Classical Philology•1925

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• Oedipus at Thebes

  Herbert Musurillo, Bernard M Knox et al.•The Classical World•1958

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• The Myth of the Heterosexual

  Holt N Parker•Arethusa•2001

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• Exchange and the Maiden

  Bonnie Maclachlan, Kirk Ormand•Phoenix•2001

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• Euripides

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• Classic Drag

  Sue-Ellen Case, Sue‐ellen Case•Theatre Journal•1985

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• Forgetting Foucault

  David M Halperin•Representations•1998

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