1. English Theatre History The 16th and 17th Centuries

2. Lecture 3 Sex and Gender in Early Modern English Theatre

3. Sex/Gender Is there a difference between « sex » and « gender »?

4. Androgynous: Greek « andros » + « gyne »/man + woman

5. Androgyny in Fashion

6. Hermaphrodite or « True Intersex » « True intersex » is the medical term for a condition in which an individual is born with ovarian and testicular tissue: in other words, female and male reproductive organs.

7. Hermaphroditus: Child of Hermes and Aphrodite

8. Hermaphroditus : At the Louvre

9. One Sex on the Early Modern English Stage for Male and Female Characters Men and Boys played all the roles

10. Boys, Ages 13-20, or so Boy players played: 1.Female roles and male children for the mainstream companies. 2. They played all the roles in the « children’s » companies.

11. Edward Kynaston

12. The Children of Paul’s

13. Philip Stubbes, 1583 The Anatomie of Abuses « Of stage-plays, interludes and their wickedness »

14. Moll Firth, or Moll « Cutpurse »

15. The Roaring Girl

16. Hic Mulier, or The Man-Woman A Pamphlet

17. Haec-Vir, or The Womanish-Man a Response to Hic Mulier

18. Macbeth and the « Wyrd » Sisters

19. The Witches « You should be women And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so » Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3

20. Perseus and Medusa, Bellini

21. The Head of Medusa, Bellini

22. Medusa, Caravaggio Self-Portrait?

23. Medusa, Paris 47, rue Vieille du Temple

24. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare The Plot for Cesario’s Soliloquy Viola, is shipwrecked in Illyria. She dresses as a boy, Cesario, and plays servant-boy to Duke Orsino. She thus becomes the ‘monster’, Viola/Cesario. Orsino is in love with the Countess Olivia. Orsino asks Cesario to help him woo Olivia for him. Olivia, however, falls in love with Viola, dressed as Cesario, instead of Orsino. Viola realizes she’s in a very tricky, « muddled » situation.

25. Judi Dench: M in Skyfall

26. What is a Soliloquy? « To Be or Not To Be » Hamlet

27. Twelfth Night, Viola’s Ring Soliloquy

28. Imogen Stubbs

30. Imogen Stubbs as Cesario

31. Twelfth Night, Olivia’s Passion

32. Mary, Queen of Scots and Her Son, James VI

33. King James VI of Scotland and James I of Britain

34. James I

35. Anne of Denmark, Queen of England (Wife of James I)

36. Inigo Jones, Court Architect

37. The Court Masque

38. Penthesilea, played by a woman

39. The Masque of Blackness

40. Atalanta

41. River Nymph

42. Masquer