12th Night Cross Dressing Analysis

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Shakespeare uses the function of cross-dressing as a method to challenge society’s norm of heterosexual relationships without completely contradicting them. Cross-dressing in As You Like It and 12th Night blurs the line of the typical normative male-female relationship that is expected by implying homoerotic relationships between characters, but not having them actually be homoerotic relationships. Both plays use the “layering of genders” that is achieved through cross-dressing in order to “increase the potential for homoeroticism”, yet simultaneously maintaining a “heterosexual level to the relationship.” (Bullion 1) Shakespeare uses the different layers of genders in order to create multiple levels to a relationship which allows for a chance
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