Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare's England

Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theatre in the Renaissance? This study uses this question as the starting point of a fresh exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society.

• Author
• Stephen Orgel

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 196

• Publisher
• Cambridge University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780521568425

• Genres
• plays

• Release date
• 1996