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"Shakespearean Performance through a Trans Lens." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023)
- Author(s):
- Alexa Alice Joubin (see profile)
- Date:
- 2023
- Group(s):
- CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern, GS Drama and Performance, LLC Shakespeare, MS Screen Arts and Culture, The Renaissance Society of America
- Subject(s):
- Transgender people, Queer theory, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Feminism, Cross-dressing
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- critical race theory, Global Shakespeare, Othello, performance theory, trans studies
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/b3qd-bd91
- Abstract:
- Gender is a set of interpersonal relationships and social practices that evolve in the presence of other people , in social spaces, and over time. My theory of trans lens corrects the institutionalized cis-sexism that assumes the cis status of even those characters with fluid gender practices. It does so by questioning the purported neutrality of cisgender subject positions. Tracing the development of trans presence in Shakespearean and global performances, this article uses Richard Eyre's film Stage Beauty as a case study to demonstrate trans lens at work, to delineate the relationships between transgender, adaptation, queer, and performance studies, and to reveal the caveats of those fields. :::: https://borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/article/view/350
- Notes:
- Part of the special issue on contemporary transgender performance of Shakespeare, Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023), edited by Alexa Alice Joubin, https://borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 8 months ago
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- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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