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“The Queen was not shav’d yet”: Edward Kynaston and the Regendering of the Restoration Stage
- The Eighteenth Century
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 50, Number 4, Winter 2009
- pp. 309-326
- 10.1353/ecy.0.0045
- Article
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A discussion of the career of Edward Kynaston, both when he acted in women’s roles and when he proceeded to act in male roles. The essay looks at the kind of male roles that Kynaston performs and makes some conclusions about masculinity in the later seventeenth century.