Crossing the Stage: Controversies on Cross-Dressing
Crossing the Stage brings together for the first time essays which explore cross-dressing in theatre, cabaret, opera and dance. The volume contains seminal pieces which have become standard texts in the field, as well as new work especially commissioned from leading writers on performance.\ Crossing the Stage is an indispensable sourcebook on theatrical cross-dressing. It will be essential reading for all those interested in performance and the representation of gender.
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Cross-dressing in theatrical performance has generated a lively, controversial debate in the last decade. This collection examines cross-dressing as a culturally determined performance phenomenon, and brings a wide range of arguments and historical evidence to bear on this fascinating subject. The essays focus on cross-dressing in theatre, cabaret, opera and dance, and address everything from the significance of the cross-dressed classical Greek actor to the Renaissance tradition of adolescent boys playing female roles: from Restoration breeches roles to "vogueing." Using critical perspectives drawn from social history, anthropology, psychoanalysis and gender theory, contributors discuss performance traditions within the wider context of sexology and sexuality, and draws out the differences of their approach.Contributors include Jill Campbell, Yale University; Elizabeth Drorbaugh, Hofstra University; Lynn Garafola, Senior Editor, Dance Magazine; Marybeth Hamilton, University of London; Jean E. Howard, Columbia University; Peggy Phelan, New York University; Isa Ragusa, Princeton University; Laurence Senelick, Tufts University; Alisa Solomon, staff writer for The Village Voice.
List of illustrationsNotes on contributorsAcknowledgments1Introduction: Current crossings12Cross-Dressing, the Theater, and Gender Struggle in Early Modern England203Goethe's "Women's Parts Played by Men in the Roman Theater"47The Legacy of Goethe's Mimetic Stance514"When Men Women Turn": Gender reversals in Fielding's plays585Boys and Girls Together: Subcultural origins of glamour drag and male impersonation on the nineteenth-century stage806The Travesty Dancer in Nineteenth-Century Ballet967"I'm the Queen of the Bitches": Female impersonation and Mae West's Pleasure Man1078Sliding Scales: Notes on Storme DeLarverie and the Jewel Box Revue, the cross-dressed woman on the contemporary stage, and the invert1209It's Never Too Late to Switch: Crossing toward power14410Crisscrossing Cultures155Bibliography171Index191
