Men in Women's Clothing: Anti-Theatricality and Effeminization, 1579 1642 by Laura Levine

Men in Women's Clothing: Anti-Theatricality and Effeminization, 1579 1642

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Laura Levine

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In 1597 anti-theatricalist Stephen Gosson made the curious remark that theatre 'effeminized' the mind. Four years later Phillip Stubbes claimed that male actors who wore women's clothing could literally 'adulterate' male gender and fifty years aft...

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