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Elizabethan England
Theater &
Folklore
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"The cross-dressed boy/man impersonating a woman on the stage both conceals and un-masks the spoken "woman"" (Rose 2008).
Performing Shakespeare
"...in artistic performance of this kind, there is something going on in the communicative interchange which says to the auditor [listener], "interpret what I say in some special sense; do not take it to mean what the words alone, taken literally, would convey." (Bauman 1975)
"It was illegal for females to perform on stage until 1661."
(Garcia 2018)
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