by Jinny Webber | Feb 2, 2018 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England
“I’ve had enough of your tongue,” Martin said. “Eat or don’t, but keep your mouth shut. Isn’t that what the Bible says?” Apparently Martin was familiar with Father Jaggard’s favorite lesson. Kate Collins in Chapter I, The Secret Player Sermons and the culture...
by Jinny Webber | Jan 25, 2018 | Christopher Marlowe, Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
“Perhaps I shall write about a Ganymede. Thus would Neptune discover a swimmer on the shore: Leander, so lovely that he might be a maid in man’s attire.” Christopher Marlowe, after seeing Sander fresh from swimming and thinking him a boy....
by Jinny Webber | Jan 19, 2018 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England
“You’re the one who inspired me.” [Kate says to her brother Johnny] “Me?” “Your knowledge. Your Ovid that you taught me to read, all those fantastical transformations. Now I shall have one myself.” “Into a boy.” He...
by Jinny Webber | Oct 29, 2017 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England
My first stage kiss, given me by Suffolk, I accepted as Margaret awakening to her potential: “That for thyself; I will not so presume/ To send such peevish tokens to a king.” Sander Cooke, Chapter XI, The Secret Player Near the conclusion of her chapter on...
by Jinny Webber | Aug 8, 2017 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Christopher Marlowe, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England
Whatever you may have heard, not every boy gains my attentions. For all his honey-gold hair, Jack charms me not. But you.” Marlowe looked at me sorrowfully. “A girl!” “Enough to damn me?” “Not to damn you. But I don’t make love to girls and cannot imagine it now, for...
