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Cross-dressing in literature

  • Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night, or What You Will around the year 1601. The play was likely created as a specific entertainment for the close of the…
  • The Merchant of VeniceThe play The Merchant of Venice emerged between 1596 and 1598, a period when William Shakespeare was establishing his reputation in London.
  • The Two Gentlemen of VeronaShakespeare drew his plot from the Spanish prose romance The Seven Books of Diana by Jorge de Montemayor, published in 1559.