Rewriting Twelfth Night: Genre, Gender and Identity in Finn Job's Damenschach.
Finn Job's Damenschach (2024) offers a reworking of Twelfth Night in a contemporary setting, thereby exploring the vitality of a work of traditional canonic culture in the current context of skepticism toward tradition. It transforms Shakespeare's comedy of cross‐dressing into an inquiry into identi...
| Publicado en: | German Quarterly Vol. 99; no. 1; pp. 38 - 55 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2026
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