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In 1579 a leading critic asserted that theatre 'effeminated' the mind. Laura Levine examines ways in which Renaissance dramatists addressed a generation's anxieties about gender and the stage, and argues that the same kinds of 'magical thinking' informed attacks on the theatre and more extreme forms of cultural paranoia.Levine, Laura is the author of 'Men in Women's Clothing: Anti-theatricality and Effeminization, 1579-1642 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)', published 1995 under ISBN 9780521455077 and ISBN 0521455073.
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