Dec 05, 2010 21:36
"On the domestic front, women like the collegiate ladies, Mistress Otter, and Morose's 'bride' of Jonson's Epicoene (Queen's Revels, 1609), women who adopt mannish behavior if not actual clothing, are satirized for their impudence in usurping male prerogatives and authority." (26)
Shapiro, Michael. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. Print.
Improperly cited because I can and it's not like I'm being graded on it. JUST FELT LIKE RECORDING IT BECAUSE IF I EVER WRITE A PAPER ON HELEN MAGNUS (my new goal before I graduate college), it might be useful. Even though it's talking about two and a half centuries before she was born. STFU >O.
college,
sanctuary,
school