crossdressing - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Description acceptable. Courtney Parker describes how the limitations upon Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre led to “spectrums” of this action being depicted in Shakespeare’s plays. For 10 points each:

[10m] Identify this action performed by Portia in The Merchant of Venice to argue Antonio’s case in court against Shylock. A character in a different play responds “I am not that I play” in reference to performing this action.

ANSWER: crossdressing [accept answers describing dressing up as a man or dressing up as the opposite gender; accept Spectrums of Shakespearean Crossdressing; prompt on answers describing wearing a disguise or disguising herself as a lawyer]

[10e] In this Shakespearean comedy, Viola disguises herself as the male page Cesario after being shipwrecked in Illyria, where she falls in love with Duke Orsino while helping him woo Olivia.

ANSWER: Twelfth Night [or Twelfth Night, or What You Will]

[10h] In a different play, Bartholomew is disguised as this character’s wife, though it is often cut in modern productions. This drunken character is tricked into thinking he is a nobleman at the play’s beginning.

ANSWER: Christopher Sly [or Christopher Sly] (The play is The Taming of the Shrew.)

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California	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	11.67	67%	42%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	13.33	83%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	21.43	100%	86%	29%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	15.00	63%	88%	0%
North	Main	Y	10	11.00	60%	50%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	15.00	80%	70%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	20.00	75%	100%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	13.75	63%	75%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	16.25	88%	75%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	12.50	50%	75%	0%

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Berkeley B	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
Claremont Scripps	USC	10	10	0	20
UCLA C	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
UCSB	UCI	0	10	0	10
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	Claremont Pitzer	0	10	0	10
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	10	0	20
Ottawa	Guelph A	10	10	10	30
Queen's A	Guelph B	0	0	0	0
McMaster B	McMaster A	0	10	0	10
Queen's B	Toronto G	10	10	0	20
Toronto A	McGill A	10	10	0	20
Toronto C	Toronto D	0	10	0	10
Toronto I	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
McGill B	Toronto H	10	10	0	20
Toronto E	Toronto J	0	0	0	0
Western Ontario	Toronto K	10	0	0	10
Toronto B	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	0	10
Waterloo	McMaster C	0	0	0	0
UF A	ERAU A	10	10	0	20
FSU	Melbourne B	10	10	0	20
Melbourne A	USF	0	10	0	10
UCF B	UF C	10	10	0	20
UCF A	UF B	0	10	0	10
ERAU B	UF E	0	0	0	0
Berkeley E	UCSC	0	10	0	10
Berkeley F	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Stanford C	10	10	0	20
CWRU A	Kenyon A	10	10	0	20
OSU B	CWRU D	10	10	10	30
Pitt A	Kenyon B	10	10	0	20
OSU A	MSU A	10	10	0	20
OSU C	Pitt C	10	10	10	30
OSU D	MSU B	0	10	0	10
Pitt B	CWRU C	10	10	0	20
North Carolina C	Clemson A	10	10	0	20
Clemson B	South Carolina A	10	0	0	10
North Carolina A	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
North Carolina B	Roanoke	10	10	0	20
Tennessee B	Liberty C	0	0	0	0
Liberty B	Tusculum	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Virginia B	Virginia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Rutgers B	10	10	0	20
Lehigh A	Lehigh B	10	10	0	20
Princeton A	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
Columbia C	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Rowan A	Swarthmore A	0	0	0	0
Truman State	Missouri A	0	10	0	10
WashU A	SIUE	10	10	0	20
WashU B	WashU D	0	10	0	10
William Woods	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
Illinois B	Chicago A	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Notre Dame C	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame A	Illinois C	10	10	0	20
Indiana B	Chicago C	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Louisville A	10	10	0	20
Michigan C	Notre Dame B	0	10	0	10
Michigan D	Purdue A	10	0	0	10
Chicago D	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
UIC	Purdue C	10	10	0	20
Macalester B	Nebraska	0	10	0	10
St. Thomas	Minnesota A	0	0	0	0
Iowa State	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Macalester A	Minnesota C	10	10	0	20
Carleton	Wisconsin	10	10	0	20
Yale B	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Simon Fraser	Alberta	10	10	10	30
British Columbia B	British Columbia A	10	10	0	20
British Columbia C	British Columbia D	10	0	0	10
Washington A	Washington B	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins C	George Mason B	0	10	0	10
George Mason C	Penn A	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	George Washington B	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins B	Catholic University	0	0	0	0
Maryland A	George Mason A	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame E	Maryland C	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Maryland D	10	10	0	20
Georgetown B	NYU B	0	0	0	0
Georgetown A	UMBC A	10	10	0	20
Penn B	VCU A	0	0	0	0
Tulsa	Alberta B	10	0	0	10
UTD A	Arizona State A	10	10	0	20
Arizona State B	McGill D	0	0	0	0
Ohio	Northwestern C	10	10	0	20
Rose State	UTD B	0	0	0	0
Texas A	Iowa	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Texas B	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	UCO	10	10	0	20
Auburn A	Sewanee A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Bruin A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Mississippi State A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	UAB A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Huntsville A	10	10	0	20
Huntsville B	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
Alabama B	Vanderbilt A	10	10	0	20
Alabama A	Vanderbilt B	10	10	0	20
Bristol A	Cambridge A	10	10	0	20
Warwick B	LSE B	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh B	Manchester B	10	10	0	20
Cornell-DII	RIT A	0	10	0	10
RIT B	Binghamton A	10	10	0	20
Binghamton B	Rochester	10	0	0	10
Syracuse	ESF	10	0	0	10