“All this is but forgery”. Gender and Performative Concerns in Fletcher and Massinger’s Love’s Cure (1615)

The instability of the medical definition of human sex and gender in early modern times was such that “male” and “female” became a matter of performance rather than pure biology. This paper aims to show that the Jacobean play Love’s Cure (1615) exposes how not only gender, but also society and its c...

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Main Author: Rachele S. Bassan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2023-12-01
Series:Lea
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/14469
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