Gender Performance in Costumes: Costuming and Gender in British Renaissance and Chinese Ming-Qing Drama

Author: Liao Weichun
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: Whether it is Shakespeare or Ming and Qing Dynasty drama writers, the "costume change" phenomenon has always been one of the "tricks" that playwrights have repeatedly tried and succeeded with. The author examines the "costume change" phenomenon in a broader cultural and historical context. This book, with the help of theories on the social attributes of gender by scholars such as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, attempts to compare and analyze the "costume change" phenomenon in English Renaissance and Chinese late imperial drama from the perspectives of traditional gender concepts in China and the West.