Just one of the boys : female-to-male cross-dressing on the American variety stage /
Gillian M. Rodger.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
- Music in American life .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Female Hamlets and Romeos: Cross-Dressing Actresses in Nineteenth-Century Theater; 2 The First Generation of Performers, 1868â#x80;#x93;1880: Annie Hindle and Ella Wesner; 3 Increasing Competition during the 1870s: Augusta Lamareaux and Blanche Selwyn; 4 The Second Generation of Performers: Maggie Weston and Minnie Hall; 5 Ella Wesner and English Male Impersonation; 6 Changing Performance Contexts and Management Styles in the 1880s; 7 Male Impersonation in the 1880s and 1890s: Annie Hindle and Ella Wesner 8 English Male Impersonation in America: Changing Aesthetics, Changing Performance Style9 Male Impersonation in the New Century; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Photographs
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Revues--History and criticism.--United States--19th century Male impersonators--History--United States--19th century.