by Jinny Webber | Jan 14, 2019 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Gender fluidity, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England, Shakespeare and Film |
Isaac Butler’s review, All Is True Is a Shakespeare Biopic for the #MeToo Generation, is subtitled “Kenneth Branagh’s new movie is part fact, part fan fiction.” https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/all-is-true-shakespeare-movie-accuracy-kenneth-branagh-hamnet.html...
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...
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...
by Jinny Webber | Jul 13, 2017 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
“My master warned us: a boy who plays ingle will lose his place in the troupe. We can’t have our playhouse a brothel.” Nat laughed. “Ingle! Brothel! Don’t you just have the fancy words.” His tone turned wheedling. “Come back to bed,...
by Jinny Webber | Jun 20, 2017 | Boy actors on Shakespeare's stage, Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England
“I shall call myself Alexander, . . . the grandest conqueror the world has ever known.” Chapter III, The Secret Player As Bill Bryson says in his book Shakespeare, The World as Stage, we know very little about the boys who played women in Shakespeare’s plays....