Squeaking Cleopatras

Description:

"'That woman is a woman!' So thundered Simon Callow in the film Shakespeare in Love, thus underlining one of the great differences between our theatre and that of the Elizabethans where women were prohibited from appearing on the stage. In this highly controversial book, the first on the subject for over sixty years, Joy Leslie Gibson looks at the female roles in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama from the point of view of the boys who actually had to create these fascinating and dramatic parts." "Scrupulously researched, this groundbreaking book sheds new light not only on Elizabethan drama but also on society as a whole. It will be required reading for any lover of Shakespeare or anyone made curious by a visit to the theatre to see one of Shakespeare's plays."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Acting,  Characters,  Child actors,  Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600,  English drama,  History,  History and criticism,  Relations with actors,  Stage history,  Theater,  Women,  Women in literature,  Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, stage history,  Female impersonators,  Casting,  Social life and customs

People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Places: England,  London

Times: 16th century,  17th century,  To 1625