As You Like It (Vol. 57) | Anne Herrmann (essay date 1989)
Anne Herrmann (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: “Travesty and Transgression: Transvestism in Shakespeare, Brecht, and Churchill,” in Theatre Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2, May, 1989, pp. 133-54.
[In the following essay, Herrmann examines the role of transvestism in As You Like It, Bertolt Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan, and Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill.]
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for all that do so are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
—Deuteronomy (22:5)
This earth that beareth and nourisheth us, hath been turned into a Stage, and women have come forth acting the parts of men.
—Francis Rous (1624)
We’re all born stark naked; To dress is bizarre. And that's the reason why Everybody's in drag....
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