Laurence Senelick

The Changing Room (eBook, PDF)

Sex, Drag and Theatre

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Changing Room traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. This is the first-ever cross-cultural study of theatrical transvestism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134722020
• Artikelnr.: 42982823

Autorenporträt

Laurence Senelick is Fletcher Professor of Drama at Tufts University. He is the recipient of awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His many publications include lovesick (1998), The Chekhov Theatre, and the Age and Stage of George L. Fox.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1: Acting out
1. The Sham in Shaman 2. The Greek for It Was Gynaikíseos 3. Skirting
Christ Part 2: Stages of Sodomy 4. Orientations 4. China Trade 5. Playboys
and Boy Players Part 3: The Mannish and the Unmanned 7. Arms and the Woman
8. Monstrous Pleasures of the Baroque 9. Breeches Birth 10. Beldames sans
Merci 11. The Prince, the Pauper and the Pan Part 4: Subcultures Surface
12. Putting On the Drag 13. The Impersonator) of the Perverse 14. Amateur
Hour Part 5: Children of the Ghetto 15. Queens of Clubs 16. Alternatives
17. Sex, Drags and Rock n Roll 18. Subversive Clowns 19. A Gender of their
Own Afterword: Dressing Down. Index