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Shakespeare's women : performance and conception / David Mann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: ix, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521882132
  • 0521882133
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.33 22
LOC classification:
  • PR2991 .M26 2008
Online resources: Dissertation note: In this book, David Mann examines the influence of the Elizabethan cross-dressed tradition on the performance and conception of Shakespeare's female roles through an analysis of all 205 extant plays written for the adult theatre. The study provides both an historical context, showing how performance practice developed in the era before Shakespeare, and a comparative one, in revealing how dramatists in general treated their female characters and the influence their characterisation had upon Shakespeare's writing.
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In this book, David Mann examines the influence of the Elizabethan cross-dressed tradition on the performance and conception of Shakespeare's female roles through an analysis of all 205 extant plays written for the adult theatre. The study provides both an historical context, showing how performance practice developed in the era before Shakespeare, and a comparative one, in revealing how dramatists in general treated their female characters and the influence their characterisation had upon Shakespeare's writing.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-279) and indexes.

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