Male-to-female crossdressing in early modern English literature : gender, performance, and queer relations

Male-to-female crossdressing in early modern English literature : gender, performance, and queer relations / Simone Chess.

"This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors' crossdressing, which...

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Main Author: Chess, Simone, 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 31.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
Cross-dressing in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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