"Boy Actors on the Shakespearean Stage: Subliminal or Subversive?"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo616/
Author:
	Mulcahy, Sean.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2017
Publication Information:
	Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 28, no. 2 (2017): 87–111. (https://angl.winter-verlag.de/article/ANGL/2017/2/9)
Annotation:
	Outlines contemporary critical debates about boy actors on the Renaissance stage, focusing on how the audiences perceived them. Draws on evidence from Shakespeare's plays to suggest that audience reactions to boy actors could be varied, and suggesting that boy actors could be positioned as both queer and heterosexual objects of desire for a male audience.
Language:
	English
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare's Milieu, Shakespeare's Stage: Acting Companies, Stage and Theater History
WSB Update:
	Summer 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo616