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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Boy actor"”.
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Properties of Desire: Performing Women on the Early Modern Transvestite Stage
… stage. It posits a trinity of female character, boy actor, and stage property in performance, the three unified by a shared occupation of subordinate places in the hierarchies that govern the home, the state, and the stage. It considers a Renaissance theatre informed by Pre-Reformation stages …
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Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays
… these chapters show how, from the young boy actor who shoved a cushion under his costume to embody big-bellied women on stage, to the inextricable relationship between pregnant women and dramatic types charged with threatening sexuality—the bawd, the witch, the herb-woman—the pregnant …
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Great bellies and boy actors: pregnancy plays on the Stuart stage, 1603-1642
… Heywood, to name a few. In “Great Bellies and Boy Actors,” I analyze all twenty-two extant—what I term—“pregnancy plays,” first performed between 1603 and 1642. The defining characteristic of this dramatic subgenre is a pregnancy or pregnant character that drives the action of a plot in some …