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Crossing the stage : controversies on cross-dressing /

Contributor(s): Ferris, Lesley.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993Description: xii, 198 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415062683; 9780415062688:; 0415062691 (pbk.).Subject(s): Impersonation | Theater -- Casting | Transvestism | Female impersonators | Male impersonators | Theater and society | Sex role in literature | Feminism and theaterDDC classification: 792.028
Contents:
Cross-dressing, the theater, and gender struggle in early modern England / Jean. E. Howard -- Goethe's "women's parts played by men in the Roman theater" / translated by Isa Ragusa. The legacy of Goethe's mimetic stance / Lesley Ferris -- "When men women turn" / Jill Campbell -- Boys and girls together / Laurence Senelick -- The travesty dancer in nineteenth-century ballet / Lynn Garafola -- "I'm the queen of the bitches" / Marybeth Hamilton -- Sliding scales / Elizabeth Drorbaugh -- It's never too late to switch / Alisa Solomon -- Crisscrossing cultures / Peggy Phelan.
Summary: Brings together for the first time essays which explore cross-dressing in theatre, cabaret, opera and dance. Essential reading for all those interested in performance and the representation of gender.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 792.028 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0041251
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-190) and index.

Cross-dressing, the theater, and gender struggle in early modern England / Jean. E. Howard -- Goethe's "women's parts played by men in the Roman theater" / translated by Isa Ragusa. The legacy of Goethe's mimetic stance / Lesley Ferris -- "When men women turn" / Jill Campbell -- Boys and girls together / Laurence Senelick -- The travesty dancer in nineteenth-century ballet / Lynn Garafola -- "I'm the queen of the bitches" / Marybeth Hamilton -- Sliding scales / Elizabeth Drorbaugh -- It's never too late to switch / Alisa Solomon -- Crisscrossing cultures / Peggy Phelan.

Brings together for the first time essays which explore cross-dressing in theatre, cabaret, opera and dance. Essential reading for all those interested in performance and the representation of gender.

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