Galatea and Shakespeare
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The Sump Tree Laws in Early Modern England
Lily is innovating in the 1580s in drawing theatrical attention to the bodies of the actors on stage he's asking his audience i think to think about the the material reality. The sheer radicalness of giving this amount of dramatic weight to characters who are otherwise so often marginalized in the theatre of this time we should say that lily is doing it in a much more adventurous way than Shakespeare. We don't really know the range of gender non-conforming behaviour at the level of clothing on the streets of London or elsewhere other than at various points in the broad Shakespearean era it becomes an issue that people talk about.
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