by Jinny Webber | Mar 15, 2020 | Actors in plague time, Christopher Marlowe, Gender fluidity |
Adapted from The Secret Player, ©Jinny Webber, Revised edition From Chapter XVIII, Spring 1592 Adieu, farewell, earth’s bliss; This world uncertain is. “In Plague Time,” Thomas Nashe Two men in black hats appeared at the entrance to The Theatre tiring...
by Jinny Webber | Mar 14, 2020 | Christopher Marlowe, Gender fluidity |
The article by Sarah Ruhl in the New York Times, “Broadway Is Closed. Write Poems Instead: When theaters shuttered, Shakespeare turned to poetry. ” (NYT, March 13, 2020) connects the current closure of Broadway theatres to the closures in...
by Jinny Webber | Jan 14, 2019 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England, Shakespeare and Film |
Isaac Butler’s review, All Is True Is a Shakespeare Biopic for the #MeToo Generation, is subtitled “Kenneth Branagh’s new movie is part fact, part fan fiction.” https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/all-is-true-shakespeare-movie-accuracy-kenneth-branagh-hamnet.html...
by Jinny Webber | Oct 31, 2018 | Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
The bedtrick: sex with a partner who pretends to be someone else. [Introduction, Wendy Doniger, The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade, University of Chicago, 2000.] Two of Shakespeare’s plays, All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure, make use of the plot...
by Jinny Webber | May 14, 2018 | Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
Johnny held out a satchel, showing me the clothes that near overflowed it: boots and hose, breeches, jerkin and shirt. Holding up a linen band, Johnny smiled. “I’m to tell you to be sure to wrap it tight. And for Mag to cut your hair.” Chapter II, The Secret Player...
by Jinny Webber | Jan 25, 2018 | Christopher Marlowe, Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
“Perhaps I shall write about a Ganymede. Thus would Neptune discover a swimmer on the shore: Leander, so lovely that he might be a maid in man’s attire.” Christopher Marlowe, after seeing Sander fresh from swimming and thinking him a boy....
