by Jinny Webber | Aug 8, 2017 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Christopher Marlowe, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England
Whatever you may have heard, not every boy gains my attentions. For all his honey-gold hair, Jack charms me not. But you.” Marlowe looked at me sorrowfully. “A girl!” “Enough to damn me?” “Not to damn you. But I don’t make love to girls and cannot imagine it now, for...
by Jinny Webber | Aug 3, 2017 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
“What? Shall I have my son a stager now? An ingle for players?” Ben Jonson, Poetaster How much would a boy actor be pressured sexually? And by whom? Sander Cooke, knowing that in her boy’s garb she will be desired by both men and women, determines to be admired...
