Gendered Guise: Shakespeare’s use of Transvestism and Gender Appropriation in his Plays
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| contents | Gendered Guise: Shakespeare’s use of Transvestism and Gender Appropriation in his Plays Sanyal Sanghita Lengua y Literatura Cross Gender dressing Transvestism Gender Appropriation Often, transvestism or cross-dressing, (that is, wearing normative, gender-designated attire of the opposite sex) is both a leitmotif and a theatrical device in William Shakespeare‟s plays. It not only serves as an integral element of a narrative/plot but it is also a dramatic device that is applied in order to preclude the woman as an actor (vis-a-vis her accepted participation) in the plays. Naturally therefore, transvestism or using socially-determined attires open up newer discourses on cultural and gender stereotypes in Shakespeare‟s performative art, when cross- dressing was a somewhat compulsive alternative abiding the social mores of that time, which did not quite expect women‟s active participation on-stage. In this paper we shall read how this gender imbalance on Shakespearean stage made the dramatis personae and the crew more significant, on the basis of their attires, cross-dressing and gender-appropriation on stage. We shall specifically read how the master playwright used cross-dressing also as a theme in his various plays which in a way problematized gender appropriation further. 2021 artículo científico 2582-0400 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=689072592010 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6890/689072592010/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6890/689072592010/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6890/689072592010/689072592010.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6890/689072592010/movil https://doi.org/10.47365/litinfinite.3.1.2021.58-68 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=6890 Litinfinite application/pdf Penprints Publication Litinfinite (India) Num.1 Vol.3 |
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| spellingShingle | Gendered Guise: Shakespeare’s use of Transvestism and Gender Appropriation in his Plays Sanyal Sanghita Lengua y Literatura Cross Gender dressing Transvestism Gender Appropriation Gendered Guise: Shakespeare’s use of Transvestism and Gender Appropriation in his Plays Sanyal Sanghita Lengua y Literatura Cross Gender dressing Transvestism Gender Appropriation Often, transvestism or cross-dressing, (that is, wearing normative, gender-designated attire of the opposite sex) is both a leitmotif and a theatrical device in William Shakespeare‟s plays. It not only serves as an integral element of a narrative/plot but it is also a dramatic device that is applied in order to preclude the woman as an actor (vis-a-vis her accepted participation) in the plays. Naturally therefore, transvestism or using socially-determined attires open up newer discourses on cultural and gender stereotypes in Shakespeare‟s performative art, when cross- dressing was a somewhat compulsive alternative abiding the social mores of that time, which did not quite expect women‟s active participation on-stage. In this paper we shall read how this gender imbalance on Shakespearean stage made the dramatis personae and the crew more significant, on the basis of their attires, cross-dressing and gender-appropriation on stage. We shall specifically read how the master playwright used cross-dressing also as a theme in his various plays which in a way problematized gender appropriation further. 2021 artículo científico 2582-0400 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=689072592010 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6890/689072592010/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6890/689072592010/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6890/689072592010/689072592010.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6890/689072592010/movil https://doi.org/10.47365/litinfinite.3.1.2021.58-68 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=6890 Litinfinite application/pdf Penprints Publication Litinfinite (India) Num.1 Vol.3 |
| title | Gendered Guise: Shakespeare’s use of Transvestism and Gender Appropriation in his Plays |
| topic | Lengua y Literatura Cross Gender dressing Transvestism Gender Appropriation |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=689072592010 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6890/689072592010/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6890/689072592010/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6890/689072592010/689072592010.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6890/689072592010/movil https://doi.org/10.47365/litinfinite.3.1.2021.58-68 |