Tragedy, gender, performance: women as tragic heroes on the nineteenth-century stage
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The popularity of crossdressing in the 19th century theater reveals an interest in the connection between gender and expression of the emotions. Actresses selected a limited range of youthful characters who could be costumed in an almost androgynous way in terms of contemporary fashion. By then adhering to theatrical traditions of performance and costume, 19th century actresses who portrayed tragic male roles were able, to a large extent, to naturalize their crossing of gender boundaries. Writing on such performances shows a slippage of sex-linked terms and less rigid male-female boundaries than were always assumed.
Publication Name: Comparative Drama
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0010-4078
Year: 1996
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Fireworks, Turks, and long-necked mules: pyrotechnic theater in Germany and Catalonia
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Fireworks have had a long history in dramatic performance. Parts of the Corpus Christi festival in Catalan, which included mock battles and pyrotechnic displays, traveled to Germany in the 16th century. The Catalan celebration and one given for Philip II in 1549 at Trent included Turks, centaurs, giants, and a figure of a dragon with fireworks. Accounts of performances in the two locations are the basis of this research.
Publication Name: Comparative Drama
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0010-4078
Year: 1998
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A survey of medieval drama and theater in Germany
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There was a large variety of German medieval theater and drama. Religious drama had versions in German, Latin and mixed languages. It included Easter plays, Passion plays, Corpus Christi plays, Christmas plays, morality plays, afterlife plays and unrelated fragmentary plays. Secular drama included Seasons plays, Neidhart plays and Carnival plays, with obscene comedy as a common property.
Publication Name: Comparative Drama
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0010-4078
Year: 1993
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