She’s the Man: Gender Dynamics in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

• Authors: Ecaterina Hanţiu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

More than any other Shakespearean play, Twelfth Night demonstrates hogender can be performed and impersonated with the use of voice, costume and mannerisms. The play explores the relationship between gender and desire, allowing us to understand the complex ways in which Shakespeare responded imaginatively to sex, gender and sexuality as determinants of human identity. The article also discusses various movie versions of the play.

Keywords

EN

Elizabethan performance; gender; identity; movie versions

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 100-113

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-08

Contributors

author

Ecaterina Hanţiu

• University of Oradea 1, Universitatii Str., 410087, Oradea, Romania

References

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• She’s the Man (2006) Director: Andy Fickman, Writers: Ewan Leslie (story and screenplay), Karen McCullah Lutz (screenplay), Kirsten Smith (screenplay). Stars: Amanda Bynes, Laura Ramsey, Channing Tatum, James Kirk

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10320-012-0031-8