Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix

Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage

Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix

384 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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