by Jinny Webber | Jul 26, 2019 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
The fashionable Englishman is “the ape of all nation’s superfluities, the continual Masquer of outlandish habiliments.” Thomas Nashe, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, quoted by Jane Ashelford, Dress in the Age of Elizabeth I, 1988 Elizabethan loved costumes....
by Jinny Webber | Jul 6, 2019 | Sex and Gender in, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
As anyone who scrolls through these posts can see, I’ve covered pretty much all the central issues of sex and gender in Shakespeare’s England, from boy actors and stage practice to cross-dressing and homosexuality to women’s literacy and sex by deception, or in other...
