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Crossdressing in As You Like It and Twelfth Night
Author(s)
TIAN Yujie
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2022.10.008
Affiliation(s)
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
ABSTRACT
As You Like It and Twelfth Night dissolve the usual
gender conventions through their emphasis on crossdressing. This paper attempts
to reveal that crossdressing enables the two heroines Rosalind and Viola to
exhibit their intelligence and achieve subjective freedom without abandoning their
feminine quality, and thus blends the Elizabethan gender roles prescribed for
women and for men. In this sense, these two plays make it possible to believe
that there is no such thing as a fixed masculinity or femininity.
KEYWORDS
crossdressing, gender, Shakespearean comedy
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