Breeches role
id:
breeches-role-193-15631554
title:
Breeches role
text:
A breeches role is one in which an actress appears in male clothing. Breeches, tight-fitting knee-length pants, were the standard male garment at the time these roles were introduced. The theatrical term travesti covers both this sort of cross-dressing and also that of male actors dressing as female characters. Both are part of the long history of cross-dressing in music and opera and later in film and television. In opera, a breeches role refers to any male character that is sung and acted by a
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Theatre role in which an actress wears male clothing
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeches_role
date created:
date modified:
2023-09-16T00:48:36Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q849959","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q849959"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/An-actress-at-her-toilet-or-miss-brazen-just-breecht-john-colley.jpg","width":750,"height":1003}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15