{"product_id":"men-in-womens-clothing-anti-theatricality-and-effeminization-1579-1642-paperback-9780521466271","title":"Men in Women's Clothing; Anti-theatricality and Effeminization, 1579–1642 (Paperback) 9780521466271","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMen in Women's Clothing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAnti-theatricality and Effeminization, 1579–1642\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLaura Levine examines the ways in which Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson addressed a generation's anxieties about gender and the stage.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaura Levine (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521466271, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 October 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e196 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.289 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… a work of critical brilliance.' New Theatre Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 1597 anti-theatricalist Stephen Gosson made the curious remark that theatre 'effeminized' the mind. Four years later Phillip Stubbes claimed that male actors who wore women's clothing could literally 'adulterate' male gender and fifty years after this in a tract which may have hastened the closing of the theatres, William Prynne described a man whom women's clothing had literally caused to 'degenerate' into a women. How can we account for such fears of effeminization and what did Renaissance playwrights do with such a legacy? Laura Levine examines the ways in which Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson addressed a generation's anxieties about gender and the stage and identifies the way the same 'magical thinking' informed documents we much more readily associate with extreme forms of cultural paranoia: documents dedicated to the extermination of witches.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Men in women's clothing\u003cbr\u003e 2. Troilus and Cressida and the politics of rage\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Strange flesh': Antony and Cleopatra and the story of the dissolving warrior\u003cbr\u003e 4. Theatre as other: Jonson's Epicoene\u003cbr\u003e 5. The 'nothing' under the puppet's clothing: Jonson's suppression of Marlowe in Bartholomew Fair\u003cbr\u003e 6. Magic as theatre, theatre as magic: daemonology and the problem of 'entresse'\u003cbr\u003e 7. Magic as theatre, theatre as magic: the case of Newes from Scotland\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003731169560,"sku":"9780521466271","price":29.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521466271i_14942f8c-91f4-4da6-817a-5a50af8209c3.jpg?v=1691382541","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/men-in-womens-clothing-anti-theatricality-and-effeminization-1579-1642-paperback-9780521466271","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}