Cross-Dressing and the Politics of Dismemberment in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher’s Philaster

By Marie H. Loughlin

Critics often dismiss cross-dressing in Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster as a meretricious dramatic trick. In reality, cross-dressing becomes a nexus for the play's pervasive anxieties concerning bodily and vestimentary codes, with major characters…

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