Comments on: Psych of Gender week 7 paper 1

By: Ahistoricality

Ahistoricality — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:35:29 +0000

Well, they dressed as Shakesperean men, so they were still wearing hose :-)

They played the roles pretty much straight: the men were played as men, the women as women, and the woman playing a woman playing a man (who was, at point, talking to a woman playing a man playing a woman, I think) played that as well. Since Shakespeare, even the romantic comedies, tend to be mostly populated by men, you get used to it pretty quickly.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:54:53 +0000

Cool, A. Did they dress as men, or play all the roles actually as women?

By: Ahistoricality

Ahistoricality — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:29:15 +0000

I’m reminded, reading about the Theater group, of a performance I saw once of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night — which relies very heavily on gender disguise and confusion — in which all the roles were played by women.

It was an interesting counterpoint to the original staging of Shakespeare, of course, which was done entirely with male actors.