The Queen's Two Bodies
Shakespeare's Boy Actress in Breeches
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4552914 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine E Kelly (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81 |
| Publication date | 1990-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3207559 |
| OpenAlex | W2316833323 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The breeches parts in Shakespeare's plays, six roles' calling for a young female character to dress herself temporarily in clothes of a boy, recently have drawn attention of those attempting to recover Shakespeare's awareness of and participation in Elizabethan constructions of gender. A significant number of recent cultural histories as well as culturally based readings of Elizabethan texts have focused attention on what Harley Granville-Barker first called the boy actress2 as one of keys to understanding formation and propagation of sex-gender differences in Renaissance social and artistic transactions. For some recent feminist historians,3 male control of both writing and playing of female parts to, among others, homosexual spectators, in a culture increasingly repressive of women's rights and freedom has
Art · Art history · Biology · Literature · Queen (butterfly · Zoology · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Literature: history, themes, analysis
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 1996 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |