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Engendering the (Queer, Trans, Nonbinary) Early Modern Stage: Then and Now

Graduate

Winter 2025

Topics

  • Early modern theatre
  • Gender variance
  • Queer and trans performance
  • Shakespearean stages

Readings

  • Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
    Kit Heyam · 2024 or earlier · required
    ISBN 9781541605404
  • Galatea
    John Lyly; Leah Scragg (ed.) · Revels Student Editions, 2012 · required
    ISBN 9780719088056
  • Galatea
    John Lyly; Andy Kesson (ed.); Emma Frankland; Subira Joy (adaptation) · Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2023 · required
    ISBN 9781350426702
  • Heyam, Kit. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender. Seal Press, 2024. ISBN 9781541605404. $25.99 new (earlier editions/used copies are acceptable)
    See source
  • Castro, The Force of Habit, adapt. Cockett and Sheikh: script + video Production website, Force of Habit @ McMaster 2022 Lobby posters, Force of Habit @ McMaster 2022 Kemp, “Transgender Shakespeare Performance: A Holistic Dramaturgy” Class visit: Dr. Peter Cockett
    See source
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