Elizabeth (Methuen Modern Plays)
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (588 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0413152707 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | Italian |
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Language Notes Text: English, Italian (translation)
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"Drag Queen Bess" according to Richard Burt. This is a wonderful, witty play that deserves to be brought back in print immediately. Quite different from the recent romantic Elizabeths in _Elizabeth_ (directed by Shekar Kapur) and _Shakespeare in Love_ (directed by John Madden) ELizabeth I here appears in male drag throughout the play. (The play is subtitled "almost by chance a woman.") Represented as a grotesque figure, Elizabeth regularly goes out in London disguised as a man in order to spy on her subjects. Written in the early 1980s, the play is a Jean Genetesque satire directed at Margaret Thatcher and her Tory government. It is one of many instances wherein