Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521568425)

Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theater in the Renaissance? Stephen Orgel uses this question as the starting point of a fresh and stimulating exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society. At once provocative and witty, lucid and stylish, Impersonations will reshape our understanding of the Renaissance theater, and make us rethink our own inadequate categories of gender, power and sexuality.

Author: Stephen Orgel
ISBN-10: 0521568420
ISBN-13: 9780521568425
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/29/1996
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.49w x 0.49d