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Gender and Authorship in Elizabethan Theatre (Who wrote plays?…
Gender and Authorship in Elizabethan Theatre
No women actors
Use of boy actors
multiple identities
boy
as a
woman
as a
boy
as a
woman
as
Viola
as
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Predominantly male audience
desires
woman
really
boy
Other male actors
romancing
woman
really
boy
HOMOEROTICISM
AUTHORSHIP
Collaborative
Borrowing
Sources
Who wrote plays?
Shakespeare?
Marlowe?
Ben Jonson?
Heywood?
Shirley?
Plays written
in collaboration
on demand
in parts
for performance
not for print