Subtelna subwersywność kobiecego ciała w extravaganzach J.R. Planchégo
The Subtle Subversiveness of the Female Body in J.R. Planche’s Extravaganzas

Summary/Abstract: This article takes up the problem of the subversive contents in the extravaganzas of James Robinson Planché, a dramatist and creator of popular theatre in Victorian England. The female body of the extravaganzas is unlike that encountered in bodily visions imposed by the rigorous etiquette of the puritanical society of nineteenth-century England. The analysis is primarily focused on those phenomena wherein the female body is undergoing constant transformation, being contextualized and shaped in accordance with the laws of a dominant culture. It is posited that the extravaganzas created for Easter and Christmas played the role of carnival, that is a time when it was permitted to present the world in reversal, and to speak against the dominant gender discourse.

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