ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the issue of the gender of their subjects and how a drama “without women” negotiated the question of female representation. The spectators never get to see the portrait, but some of them might have actually gasped at the idea that such a picture could be presented on stage at any moment, caught, as they were, in the suspension of disbelief. The spectators never get to see the portrait, but some of them might have actually gasped at the idea that such a picture could be presented on stage at any moment, caught, as they were, in the suspension of disbelief. Portraits could be shown at any moment of the dramatic action. A necessary condition of staged portraits was their capacity of “being portable and transportable”. Portraits were the object of consumerist desire and their display onstage would incite it.
