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Cross-Dressed Comedy

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Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise

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This chapter focuses on M&W’s use of drag, analysing their appropriations of Antony and Cleopatra, which comically trouble both gender and sexual politics in the supposedly ‘permissive’ 1960s. Refusing to replicate simplistic caricatures and homophobic representations, the Boys embrace the many comic possibilities of ‘dragging up.’

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Hamrick, S. (2020). Cross-Dressed Comedy. In: Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe & Wise. Palgrave Studies in Comedy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33958-6_10

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