• "Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown," Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern, ed. Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska (Cornell University Press, 2021), 322-349

    Author(s):
    Alexa Alice Joubin (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern, LLC East Asian, LLC Shakespeare, MS Screen Arts and Culture, The Renaissance Society of America
    Subject(s):
    Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Film criticism, Theater, History, Feminism, Renaissance
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    film adaptation, east asia, British film, Gender and queer studies, Shakespeare, Queer and feminist performance, Theatre and history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/nap7-kz24
    Abstract:
    Analyzing trans narratives about the early moderns through the lenses of affective labor and social reparation, this chapter reclaims as trans the Shakespeare films that have been misinterpreted as homosexual. In doing so, this chapter builds a longer, more intersectional history of gendered embodiment. Reparative trans performances—works in which characters see their conditions improve—carry substantial affective rewards by offering optimism and emotional gratification, as exemplified by two recent films about early modern theatre making. The South Korean blockbuster The King and the Clown (dir. Lee Joon-ik, 2005) delineates the love triangle between a fifteenth-century king, a masculine jester, and a trans feminine character. Stage Beauty (dir. Richard Eyre, Lions Gate, 2004) chronicles the private life and stage career of the historical boy actor Edward Kynaston (1640–1712) who plays exclusively female roles before taking on male roles on stage. By reading these two films in the context of trans cinema, this chapter makes an intervention in both transgender and Shakespeare studies by demonstrating new ways to interpret gender variance beyond just a dramatic device. :::: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501759505/trans-historical/#bookTabs=1 ::::: ISBN: 978-1501759505
    Notes:
    https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501759505/trans-historical/
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    Publisher:
    Cornell University Press
    Pub. Date:
    2021
    Book Title:
    Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern
    Author/Editor:
    Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska
    Chapter:
    13
    Page Range:
    322 - 349
    ISBN:
    978-1501759505
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
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