{"id":227,"date":"2017-03-05T16:35:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T21:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=227"},"modified":"2017-03-05T16:35:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T21:35:18","slug":"fiction-and-friction-shakespeares-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/gender-trouble\/fiction-and-friction-shakespeares-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction and Friction \/ Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that stuck out to me from Greenblatt&#8217;s article was his idea that\u00a0most of the transformations and exchanges in Twelfth Night show how &#8220;men love women precisely <em>as representations,<\/em> a love the original performances of these plays literalized in the person of the boy actor&#8221; (93). With the\u00a0Globe performance of Twelfth Night, we got a sense of how Renaissance theater used the body as a way to both reveal and\u00a0trouble gender and sexuality; how women &#8220;pass through the\u00a0state of being men in order to become women&#8230;. Shakespearean women are in this sense the\u00a0representation of Shakespearean men&#8221; (92). \u00a0In order for a woman to <em>really<\/em> be a woman, she must have first been &#8220;legitimized&#8221; as a man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that stuck out to me from Greenblatt&#8217;s article was his idea that\u00a0most of the transformations and exchanges in Twelfth Night show how &#8220;men love women precisely as representations, a love the original performances of these plays literalized in the person of the boy actor&#8221; (93). With the\u00a0Globe performance of Twelfth Night, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-trouble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}