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Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical skills in order to reassess their wide-reaching contribution to early modern theatrical culture. Ranging across drama performed from the 1580s to the 1630s by all-boy and adult companies alike, the book argues that the exuberant physicality fostered in boy performers across the early modern repertory shaped not only their own performances, but how and why plays were written for them in the first place. Harry R. McCarthy's ground-breaking approach to boy performance draws on detailed analysis of a wide range of plays, thorough interrogation of the cultural contexts in which they were written and performed, and present-day practice-based research, offering a critical reimagining of this important and unique facet of early modern theatrical culture.

Child actors --- Theater --- English drama --- History --- History and criticism. --- Children as actors --- Actors --- Theatrical science --- History of civilization --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Acting --- actors [performing artists] --- England

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"Like other English Renaissance writers and dramatists, Shakespeare was attracted to the heroine in male disguise. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage examines the use of this type of character--man playing woman playing man--by framing five plays by Shakespeare against readings of some of the other "female page" plays written by other playwrights of the period. The many variations Michael Shapiro traces are placed in the context of female cross-dressing as a social phenomenon and in the context of female impersonation as the standard way of representing women on the Shakespearean stage. Shakespeare's use of the female page spanned his entire career: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (an early comedy), The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Twelfth Night (mature romantic comedies), and Cymbeline (a late romance). Shapiro deploys several modes of literary criticism to establish the distinctiveness of each of Shakespeare's five disguised heroine plays and to trace the subtle and ingenious variations on the motif by such writers as Greene, Fletcher, Chapman, Middleton, Jonson, and Ford. The popularity of the "female page" is examined as a playful literary and theatrical way of confronting, avoiding, or merely exploiting issues such as the place of women in a patriarchal culture and the representation of women on stage. Looking beyond and behind the stage for the cultural anxieties that cross-dressing London women being punished as prostitutes and speculation that the apprentices who played female roles in adult companies engaged in homoerotic practices. [This book] will appeal not only to scholars of Renaissance drama but to any reader interested in the historical construction and analysis of gender and sexuality, both on- and offstage"-- Back cover.

Theatrical science --- Thematology --- Shakespeare, William --- Theâtre --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Women in the theater. --- Women in literature. --- Theater --- Theater. --- Sex role in literature. --- Gender identity in the theater. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Disguise in literature. --- Cross-dressing in literature. --- Child actors. --- Travestisme dans la litterature. --- Femmes dans la litterature. --- Deguisement dans la litterature. --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature. --- Identite de genre dans la litterature. --- Enfants acteurs --- Femmes au theâtre --- Identite de genre au theâtre --- Child actors --- Women in the theater --- Gender identity in the theater --- Identite sexuelle --- Dans la litterature. --- Casting. --- Histoire --- Distribution artistique --- History --- Casting --- Shakespeare, William, --- Characters --- Women. --- Dramatic production. --- Stage history --- England.

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"Like other English Renaissance writers and dramatists, Shakespeare was attracted to the heroine in male disguise. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage examines the use of this type of character--man playing woman playing man--by framing five plays by Shakespeare against readings of some of the other "female page" plays written by other playwrights of the period. The many variations Michael Shapiro traces are placed in the context of female cross-dressing as a social phenomenon and in the context of female impersonation as the standard way of representing women on the Shakespearean stage. Shakespeare's use of the female page spanned his entire career: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (an early comedy), The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, Twelfth Night (mature romantic comedies), and Cymbeline (a late romance). Shapiro deploys several modes of literary criticism to establish the distinctiveness of each of Shakespeare's five disguised heroine plays and to trace the subtle and ingenious variations on the motif by such writers as Greene, Fletcher, Chapman, Middleton, Jonson, and Ford. The popularity of the "female page" is examined as a playful literary and theatrical way of confronting, avoiding, or merely exploiting issues such as the place of women in a patriarchal culture and the representation of women on stage. Looking beyond and behind the stage for the cultural anxieties that cross-dressing London women being punished as prostitutes and speculation that the apprentices who played female roles in adult companies engaged in homoerotic practices. [This book] will appeal not only to scholars of Renaissance drama but to any reader interested in the historical construction and analysis of gender and sexuality, both on- and offstage"-- Back cover.

Theâtre --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Women in the theater. --- Women in literature. --- Theater --- Theater. --- Sex role in literature. --- Gender identity in the theater. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Disguise in literature. --- Cross-dressing in literature. --- Child actors. --- Travestisme dans la litterature. --- Femmes dans la litterature. --- Deguisement dans la litterature. --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature. --- Identite de genre dans la litterature. --- Enfants acteurs --- Femmes au theâtre --- Identite de genre au theâtre --- Child actors --- Women in the theater --- Gender identity in the theater --- Identite sexuelle --- Dans la litterature. --- Casting. --- Histoire --- Distribution artistique --- History --- Casting --- Shakespeare, William, --- Personnages dans la litterature. --- Characters --- Women. --- Dramatic production. --- Stage history --- England. --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts 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