[This article consitutes the MA Theatre Dissertation submitted in September 2020 including a limited Drag Glossary to briefly explain some of the genre-specific terminology used in the article, followed by an extensive Bibliography.]

Writing about the reification of gender through the parodying form of drag performance as a high camp subversion or exaggeration of a genderless gendered form in a potentially low-art medium is a path strewn with difficulty, complication, and a multitude of grey areas and blurred lines. Particularly, when much of the given terminology is deemed “beyond definition”.

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