Some Queer Bodies, Per Se: An Explication of Actors' Bodies in Ichor & The Four Humours Present: Percy Per Se Himself Presenting: Fopulous! or All Is Vanity (A Tragicomedy of Manners in Five Acts with Narrated Interludes and Dancing)

Authors

Bennett P. Whitaker, Southern Illinois University CarbondaleFollow

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department or Program

Speech Communication

Advisor

Pelias, Ronald J.

Abstract

This paper locates bodies' centrality to performance studies and interrogates those bodies present in one aesthetic performance, Fopulous, employing a queered version of David Graver's typification in "The Actor's Bodies."