Shakespeare Re-Dressed: Cross-Gender Casting in Contemporary PerformanceEdited by James C. Bulman
About the Editor:
James C. Bulman is the Henry B. and Patricia Bush Tippie Chair in English at Allegheny College.
The past two decades have seen unprecedented growth in the cross-gender casting of Shakespeare’s plays—men playing women, women playing men, and both playing roles regendered for the opposite sex. Such casting has been fueled by a revolution in the way spectators view gender in Western societies. Influenced by the same cultural forces that gave rise to feminism and queer theory, contemporary Shakespeare performances have foregrounded the artifice of gender construction and challenged audiences to question conventional beliefs about the nature of sexual desire, sexual orientation, and gendered behavior. These essays are stunningly comprehensive in their consideration of cross-gender-cast Shakespare as it evolved over the past century. Theoretically informed yet grounded in the particularity of individual performances, they forge new connections between performance studies and gender theory and broach issues vital to anyone interested in Shakespeare.
Acknowledgments
Introduction, James C. Bulman
Cross-Dressing, Drag, and Passing: Slippages in Shakespearean Comedy, Jennifer Drouin
Acting against the Rules: Remembering the Eroticism of the Shakespearean Boy Actress, Roberta Barker
Bringing Cheek by Jowl’s As You Like It Out of the Closet: The Politics of Queer Theater, James C. Bulman
Rosalind’s Breast, Cary M. Mazer
Unaccommodated Women: Mabou Mines’ Lear, the Universal, and the Particular in Performance, P. A. Skantze
Prospera’s Brave New World: Cross-Cast Oppression and the Four-Fold Player in the Georgia Shakespeare Festival’s Tempest, Andrew James Hartley
“A Queen in a Beard”: A Study of All-Female Shakespeare Companies, Melissa D. Aaron
Re-dressing the Balance: All -Female Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre, Elizabeth Klett
Constructing Femininity in the New Globe’s All-Male Antony and Cleopatra, Robert Conkie
Performing Gender at the Globe: The Technologies of the Cross-Dressed Actor, Judith Rose
Unsex Me Here: Male Cross-Dressing at the New Globe, James C. Bulman
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