Since young male players were the norm during the English
Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female
characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably
not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing
examines these varied types of female characters in English
Renaissance drama, drawing from a range of play texts themselves in
order to investigate if evidence exists for varying performance
practices for male-to-female crossdressing. This book argues for a
reading of the representation of female characters on the English
Renaissance stage that not only suggests categorizing crossdressing
along a spectrum of theatrical artifice, but also explores how this
range of artifice enriches our understanding of the plays. The
scholarship surrounding cross-dressing rarely makes this
distinction, since in our study of early modern plays we tend to
accept as a matter of course that all crossdressing was essentially
the same. The basis of Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean
Crossdressing is that it was not.
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