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'that Woman Is A Woman!' So Thundered Simon Callow In The Film Shakespeare In Love, Thus Underlining One Of The Great Differences Between Our Theatre And That Of The Elizabethans Where Women Were Prohibited From Appearing On The Stage. In This Highly Controversial Book, The First On The Subject For Over Sixty Years, Joy Leslie Gibson Looks At The Female Roles In Elizabethan And Jacobean Drama From The Point Of View Of The Boys Who Actually Had To Create These Fascinating And Dramatic Parts. Scrupulously Researched, This Groundbreaking Book Sheds New Light Not Only On Elizabethan Drama But Also On Society As A Whole. It Will Be Required Reading For Any Lover Of Shakespeare Or Anyone Made Curious By A Visit To The Theatre To See One Of Shakespeare's Plays.--book Jacket. Education And Apprenticeships -- To Be A Woman -- To Be An Actor -- The Anatomy Of Speech -- The Woman's Part -- The Other Playwrights -- The Children Of St Paul's -- The Children Of The Revels -- Boys Will Be Girls And Girls Will Be Boys -- Punctuation Of Ophelia's Speech, Hamlet, Act 3 Scene I, 'o, What A Noble Mind' -- The Sumptuary Laws. Joy Leslie Gibson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 211-216) And Index

Who reads Squeaking Cleopatras : the Elizabethan boy player?

Author

Joy Leslie Gibson; Sutton Publishing

Publisher

The History Press Ltd

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780750924887

Category

performing arts

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

2.43 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14