It's a bird!  It's a plane! It's a..................

No, wait... is that a male or female Desdemona?!?!???

In this episode, we go down the rabbit hole of gender in Shakespeare plays. Join us as we discuss some of the greatest cross-dressing "actoresses" of the Bard, as well as what the text of Shakespeare reveals about the differences between guys and gals (and we're not talking anatomy here folks - well, okay, but just a little).

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Episode Sources:

Lucas Garcia, Gender on Shakespeare’s Stage: A Brief History, writerstheatre.org

shakespeare-online.com /sonnets/20detail

McManus, Clare: Shakespeare and gender: the ‘woman’s part’ - The British Library

Sobhan Hota, Hitachi Vantara:  Gender in Shakespeare: Automatic Stylistic Analysis of Shakespeare's

Borrow, Justin:  Shakespeare, Sexuality and Gender, thetheatrereader.com

Shapiro, James: Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell US About Our Past and Future 

Luckyj, Christina: ‘A Moving Rhetoricke’: Gender and Silence in Early Modern England