Is she a woman? Alternative critical frameworks for understanding cross-dressing and cross-gender casting on the Victorian stage

“…Yet there is an enduring tendency in Victorian theatre criticism to situate transvestite performances within broad-brush assumptions of binary attitudes towards gender amongst theatre audiences. …”

A coming of age: drama at St John’s college, Oxford in the early modern period by Sandis, E

“…My approach is to restore the neglected Latin sources to their rightful place at the heart of the investigation and, by providing a combination of close textual analysis and translation, to push forward their integration into the mainstream of English Renaissance theatre criticism.</p> <br/> <p>Chapter 1 examines the intercollegiate networks which supported St John's College in the early days of its development as a centre for drama, highlighting Christ Church’s role as an older, richer sibling to its up-and-coming rival. …”

Finding god in Dinsman’s it is not a suicide: an Islamic metaphysical approach by Mas Rynna Wati Ahmad

“…This is because most theatre critics and local audience remain sceptical towards the fundamental philosophy of the absurd. …”
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