by Jinny Webber | Feb 20, 2023 | Sex and Gender in |
Time for a transition from posts related to Shakespeare’s England to ancient Greece before the Trojan war. Like Shakespeare who leaned on the Roman poet Ovid, I use his Metamorphoses as a springboard. Related blogs can be found on my new site, Gender and Greek Myth,...
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 | 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...
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...
