by Jinny Webber | Feb 17, 2022 | Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
Through history, women have successfully passed as male: no hormones, no surgery, only perhaps herbs to end or slow menstrual periods. During the American Civil War, some 200 soldiers who died in battle or otherwise later identified were female. Who can blame them?...
by Jinny Webber | Nov 6, 2021 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England, Shakespeare and Fiction, The Man-Woman |
The release date for Bedtrick will be November 16. Pre-order copies online or at your favorite book shop. Summary: During the tumultuous late days of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Alexander Cooke, born female, successfully passes as male to play Shakespeare’s...
by Jinny Webber | Aug 16, 2021 | Gender fluidity, The Man-Woman |
Rare for a living person to be the subject of a play, but so Moll Frith was in The Roaring Girl, or Moll Cut-purse, Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s play of 1607-1611. By then she was legendary in London, sitting onstage at a performance of The Roaring Girl, and...
by Jinny Webber | Jun 29, 2021 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
From 1599 until her death in 1603, Queen Elizabeth’s reign begins to lose its magic. She’s worked hard to be a Prince ‘in a feeble woman’s body,’ the almost mythic Gloriana, but her powers may be waning. Tensions outside her control contribute: intermittent bad...
by Jinny Webber | Nov 24, 2020 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in |
Numerous posts over the years have covered aspects of gender fluidity: ‘Elizabethan Masquerade’, ‘Androgyny in Male Attire’, ‘Love Between Males on the Elizabethan Stage’, ‘The Roaring Girl’, and four posts on boy actors and sex. Now preparing a Zoom course on gender...
by Jinny Webber | Mar 21, 2020 | Actors in plague time, Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
Ferdinand Stanley, Lord Strange “I thought I would say this poem tomorrow for the contest,” Nashe said. “But it occurs to me something more bawdy will better suit, and I have just the thing: the sad tale of Tomalin and his Frances. It’s called ‘The Choice of...
