Boy Actors is a theatrical practice in Elizabethan drama wherein young male performers constituted the class of actors who, due to legal and social prohibitions against female performers on stage, exclusively played female roles, thereby distinguishing this practice from adult male or female performance traditions in early modern English theatre.
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- DCDavid Cressy
LIP - Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, Portugal
1 publications · 56 citations
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- CLChristiane L. Joost‐Gaugier
1 publications · 218 citations
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- LJLaura J. Rosenthal
1 publications · 27 citations
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- RLRichard L. DeMolen
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University of King's College
Halifax, Canada
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1 publications
11 citations
University of Warwick
Coventry, United Kingdom
1 h-index
1 publications
40 citations
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Canada
1 h-index
1 publications
11 citations
Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
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1 publications
13 citations
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, United States
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1 publications
15 citations
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Mexico City, Mexico
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50 citations
Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
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13 citations
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- Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
SEL · 2 publications · 45 citations
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 1 publications · 92 citations
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- Modern Language Quarterly
MLQ · 1 publications · 24 citations
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- Theatre Survey
1 publications · 18 citations
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- The Modern Language Review
1 publications · 49 citations
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