THE STORY: In 1661 the most famous portrayer of female roles on the London stage was a performer named Kynaston. Like every other player permitted to enact such

This is the first book to provide a direct and comprehensive account of British art cinema. Film history has tended to view British filmmakers as aesthetically

THE STORY: In the last decade of the twentieth century, a beautiful young woman in nineteenth-century clothing is found floating on an iceberg in the middle of

This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual a

Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of s