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Men in Women's Clothing : Anti-theatricality and Effeminization, 1579-1642 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Men in Women's Clothing Anti-theatricality and Effeminization 1579-1642 - Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Author: Laura Levine
In 1579 a leading dramatic critic made the curious remark that theatre 'effeminated' the mind. Four years later another insisted that male actors who wore women's clothing could literally 'adulterate' male gender. In a tract which may have hastened the closing of the theatres in the mid-seventeenth century, William Prynne described a warrior who...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521455077
ISBN-10: 0521455073
Publication Date: 1/27/1995
Pages: 195
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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