Wearing the breeches
gender on the antebellum stage
by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix
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"Wearing the Breeches explores the theatre's most celebrated transvestite: the antebellum breeches actress. 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 theatres throughout the country.
This feminist history takes a gendered look at a phenomenon that has, until now, been widely regarded by theatre 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Breeches parts, History, Impersonation, Male impersonators, Theater, Theater, united states, historyPlaces
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Wearing the breeches: gender on the antebellum stage
2000, St. Martin's Press
in English
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0312223498 9780312223496
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-367) and index.
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