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 | Aug 3, 2017 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
“What? Shall I have my son a stager now? An ingle for players?” Ben Jonson, Poetaster How much would a boy actor be pressured sexually? And by whom? Sander Cooke, knowing that in her boy’s garb she will be desired by both men and women, determines to be admired...
