SL Grange on history, queer lives and performance
14 April, 2020
In: Conversations, Creative Work, History, Identity
Tagged: archives, contemporary, early modern, literature, material culture, Performance, queer, Theatre, trans
SL Grange tells us about Moll Frith (also known as Mary Frith), an early modern crossdresser, queer and transgender history and performance: ‘how to meet those people who lie outside of the cishet, white male trajectory of progressive history: not the dudes on horses’.
For more on these ideas, see:
- Natasha Korda Labors Lost: Women's Work and the Early Modern English 2011
- Elizabeth Freeman Time Bends: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories 2010
- Jack Halberstam Sex, Gender and the End of Normal 2012
- Jack Halberstam Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability 2018
- Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker The Roaring Girl 1611