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Article: Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2008
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Amanda Bailey. Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. x + 190 pp. index. bibl. $65. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9242-7.
The importance of the semiotics of clothing has long been recognized in studies of early modern English culture and drama. Clothing marked both social rank and gender, and items of clothing constituted perhaps the chief (and most expensive) stage properties of the early modern English theater. Not surprisingly, most studies of the cultural significance of clothing on the stage have focused on the theater's subversion of the categories of rank and gender. If clothing should ...