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::''Not to be confused with the South American gender identity term: Travesti.'' ''Travesti'' (literally "disguised") is a theatrical term referring to the portrayal of a character in an opera, play, or ballet by a performer of the opposite sex. Some sources regard 'travesti' as an Italian term, some as French. Depending on sources, the term may be given as travesty,〔 *Budden, Julian (1992), 'Travesty' in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', p 799〕 ''travesti'',〔Kennedy, Michael (2006), ''The Oxford Dictionary of Music'', p 899〕〔 *Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), ''The Oxford Dictionary of Opera'', p 716〕 or ''en travesti''. The ''Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English'' explains the origin of the latter term as "pseudo-French",〔According Speake and LaFlaur (1999), the phrase itself is not recorded in French, and derives from the misinterpretation of ''travesti'' (the past participle of the French verb ''travestir'') as a noun.〕 although French sources from the mid-19th century have used the term, e.g. ''Bibliothèque musicale du Théâtre de l'opéra'' (1876), ''La revue des deux mondes '' (1868), and have continued the practice into the 21st century.〔See, for example Duron (2008) p. 231 and Coste (2004) pp. 26 and 141〕 For social reasons, female roles were played by boys or men in many early forms of theatre, and ''travesti'' roles continued to be used in several types of context even after actresses became accepted on the stage. The popular British theatrical form of the pantomime traditionally contains a role for a "principal boy", a breeches role played by a young woman, and also one or more pantomime dames, female comic roles played by men. Similarly, in the formerly popular genre of Victorian burlesque, there were usually one or more breeches roles. ==Men in female roles== Until the late 17th century in Europe, women were conventionally portrayed by male actors (usually adolescents) in drag because the presence of actual women on stage was considered immoral. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Travesti (theatre)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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