Established as a popular convention during the English Restoration, the practice of women playing male roles reached its peak in America during the first half of the nineteenth century as actresses regularly donned tunics, tights, and trousers in theaters throughout the country. This feminist history takes a gendered look at a phenomenon that has, until now, been widely regarded by theater scholars as a form of entertainment exclusively designed to titillate a male audience, and demonstrates that breeches performance revealed much more than a shapely leg.
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"...provides a valuable service by contributing to and furthering the conversation about an important aspect of American theatre history." --Theatre Journal
Her book is a good read, fitted out with appropriate illustrations and photographs.
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Her book is a good read, fitted out with appropriate illustrations and photographs.
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ON MARCH 20, 1807, WILLIAM WIZARD'S COLUMN on the theatre appeared, as usual, in the weekly periodical Salmagundi. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
breeches performer, breeches performance, breeches actress, serious male roles, theatrical hegemony, equestrian melodrama, tradition for breeches, theatrical transvestite, utility actress, breeches roles, leg business, theatrical transvestism, theatrical women, horrible prettiness, dressed actress, dominant gender ideology, female usurpation, breeches parts, feminine spectacle, burlesque performer, boy roles, wearing the breeches, critical anxiety, leading male roles, disguise role Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, True Womanhood, Little Pickle, Miss Cushman, Cushman's Romeo, Ellen Tree, Charlotte Cushman, Adah Isaacs Menken, Park Theatre, Jack Sheppard, New Bowery, Peter Pan, The Lily, Count Belino, Clara Fisher, Haymarket Theatre, Miss Menken, Harvard Theatre Collection, Lewis Hallam, London Times, Miss Tree, William Tell, Alice Mitchell, Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, French Spy New!
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ON MARCH 20, 1807, WILLIAM WIZARD'S COLUMN on the theatre appeared, as usual, in the weekly periodical Salmagundi. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
breeches performer, breeches performance, breeches actress, serious male roles, theatrical hegemony, equestrian melodrama, tradition for breeches, theatrical transvestite, utility actress, breeches roles, leg business, theatrical transvestism, theatrical women, horrible prettiness, dressed actress, dominant gender ideology, female usurpation, breeches parts, feminine spectacle, burlesque performer, boy roles, wearing the breeches, critical anxiety, leading male roles, disguise role Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, True Womanhood, Little Pickle, Miss Cushman, Cushman's Romeo, Ellen Tree, Charlotte Cushman, Adah Isaacs Menken, Park Theatre, Jack Sheppard, New Bowery, Peter Pan, The Lily, Count Belino, Clara Fisher, Haymarket Theatre, Miss Menken, Harvard Theatre Collection, Lewis Hallam, London Times, Miss Tree, William Tell, Alice Mitchell, Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, French Spy New!
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