Transvestitism in The Taming of the Shrew and Shakespeare
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Description: An essay by Julian Darius on gender and transvestitism.
The Old Conventional Metamorphosis: Transvestitism in   /  24 Sep 2008 The Induction included, there are no women in , and this makes all the difference in a play about gender. The play's two Induction scenes, while emphasizing inversion and the play as fiction, may be a Shakespearean defensive strategy, may not have been performed in his time, and is quickly forgotten by most readers for the very good reason that Shakespeare (presumably) drops the scenes' characters after the very first scene of the play proper; the most important aspect to the Induction, however, is likely its emphasis on transvestitism. The play, after all, was written and performed with the convention of boys playing female roles in mind. The references and occurrences throughout to and of metamorphoses serve to emphasize the point that the play itself is a metamorphosis, as a stage becomes myriad locations and actors become characters; but no metamorphosis of the Elizabethan stage is more important to recapture than boys becoming girls. When this element, emphasized by the Induction, is considered for
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