WXDA Record #396
Epilogue-Prologue.
20 April 1785
Summary
Epilogue-Prologue "spoken by Mrs. Wells, in the character of Macheath after the Beggar's Opera" discusses an "age, where sexes meet each other". It references a masculine Miss in an "oilskin hat" and "horseman's coat" and a "sweet Miss-Master" whose "manly manners melt away", a gender nonbinary.
Full Title
20 Apr 1785. Epilogue-Prologue. Times p. 1 c. C,D.
Publication
Times of London(Times)
Author / Creator
Full Record
- Date
- 20 April 1785
- Cross-dressing occupation
- Actor
- Primary source topic
- Dressed as a man; Theatre; Insult target
- Item format
- News report; Poem
- Attire
- Breeches part
- Gender Manifestation
- "giant stride" (masc. woman) vs. (fem. man) "glides" & "manly manners melt away"
- Sex Perceived by Recorder
- Female
- Report Scope
- Peripheral
- Column(s)
- C,D
- Page Numbers
- 1
People Mentioned in This Record
- Wells(Subject of study)Mentions