Androgynous Cliques and Epicene Colleges: Gender Transgression On and Off the Victorian Stage

Abstract:

Jim Davis ne of the most notorious legal cases in London during the early 1870s was that of Boulton and Park, two young men who were arrested under the Vagrancy Act as they left the Strand Theatre on 28 April, 1870, because they were dressed in female attire. Their case was heard at Bow Street Magistrates' Court, where the Prosecution alleged that they and other accomplices had frequented the Strand Theatre with the intention of committing a felony, although this was later changed to “conspiracy to incite others to commit an abominable offence.” The case went to trial in May, 1871: in the intervening period Boulton and Park were refused bail and retained in custody. Their case, which has often been cited as a forerunner of the Oscar Wilde trial of the 1890s, has received prominentattention not only in studies of transvestism but also in many histories of homosexuality and of Victorian sexuality." Yet little …

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1998

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