"'If I were a woman': The Performativity of Gender in Shakespeare"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo910/
Author:
	Findlay, Alison.
Type:
	Book Chapter
Year:
	2023
Publication Information:
	Bertheau, Shakespeare et le Genre. Shakespeare and Gender (https://doi.org/10.4000/shakespeare.7778)
:
	Bertheau, Shakespeare et le Genre. Shakespeare and Gender
Annotation:
	Argues that early modern performances presented gender as performative, particularly because of boy actors playing women. Contends that performances today should embrace the "transgender possibilities" in Shakespeare's works. English and French summaries, online.
Language:
	English
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare and His Stage, Shakespeare's Stage: Acting Companies, Stage and Theater History
WSB Update:
	Winter 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo910