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    <title>CROSS-DRESSING AND BORDER CROSSING IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE&amp;#039;S AS YOU LIKE IT: THE PARADOX OF FEMALE IDENTITY</title>

    <slug>cross-dressing-and-border-crossing-in-william-shakespeare-s-as-you-like-it-the-paradox-of-female-identity</slug>

    
            <parent>
            <title>Volume 3, Issue 2</title>
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            <title>ARTICLES</title>
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	<year>2022</year>

    
	<volume>3</volume>
	
    
    <content><![CDATA[In William Shakespeare’s As You Like It (1623/1994), cross-dressing is used not only as a
theatrical tool to fill in a gap resulting from female physical absence on the Elizabethan stage; it
also serves as a symbolic act that opens new perspectives and raises questions about socio-cultural
issues related to gender roles and gender performance. This research follows the development of
the cross-dressed Rosalind, a female character played by a man and disguised as a man. The study
equally considers the question of female agency and power through the female character’s act of
disguise. It attempts to show whether Rosalind manages or fails to acquire a self-sufficient identity
through her physical transvestism. The scrutiny of cross-dressing as a metatheatrical device
enhances the problematization of the matter of gender performance in the play.]]></content>

    
    
            <keywords>cross-dressing; identity; femininity; resilience; submissiveness; metatheatre;</keywords>
    
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    <url>https://ijep.ibupress.com/articles/cross-dressing-and-border-crossing-in-william-shakespeare-s-as-you-like-it-the-paradox-of-female-identity</url>

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