Gender Twelfth Night Flashcards
1
Q
Stephen Grosson
A
1579 - theatre was “effeminite” and “effeminizing”
2
Q
Dr John Rainoldes
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1599 - condemns wearing of female dress by boy players as “an occasion of wanteness and lust”
3
Q
Johnson
A
1765 - “the marriage of Olivia… wants credibility”
4
Q
Harley Granville Barker (f)
A
1912 - “Shakespeare wrote the part for a boy not for a Victorian lady”
5
Q
Casey Charles
A
1997 - “Twelfth Night is centrally concerned with demonstrating the uncategorical temper of sexual attraction”
6
Q
Russell
A
1901 - “the friendship of Antonio for Sebastian is exactly twin to the love of Olivia for Cesario”
7
Q
Globe 2021 production
A
Characters were typically gender fluid
Feste was both man and woman
No gender or sexuality limitations
