WXDA Record #625
No title.
21 June 1786
Summary
The Widow's Vow: A farce in which "a lady, who has vowed never to see a man" received "a male into her house under the imposition of his being a woman in man's cloaths." Not a new concept: seen "in the Committee and in Fountainbleau" and currently "too indelicate for the stage."
Full Title
21 Jun 1786. No title. Times p. 2 c. D.
Publication
Times of London(Times)
Full Record
- Date
- 21 June 1786
- Primary source topic
- Theatre; Fictional; Dressed as a man
- Item format
- Theatre review
- Discovery of cross-dressing
- Rumour
- Attire
- Male garb
- Gender Manifestation
- Theatrical example of comic deception via pretended cross-dressing, implying some gender "tell" to sustain the deception.
- Sex Perceived by Others
- Female
- Sex Perceived by Recorder
- Male
- Report Scope
- Central
- Alternate Names / Titles
- Universal Register. London. Theatre.
- Column(s)
- D
- Page Numbers
- 2