Staging Masculinities : History, Gender, Performance Paperback / softback
by Michael Mangan
Paperback / softback
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One man in his time plays many parts/His acts being seven ages', asserts Shakespeare's Jacques, in a speech which foreshadows what has become a commonplace of contemporary gender theory: that masculinity, far from being a secure, unproblematic gender identity, is a site of crisis and contradictions. Staging Masculinities engages with the complex and paradoxical history of masculinities by exploring the ways in which changing concepts of what it means 'to be a man' have been represented, celebrated, examined and critiqued on mainstream Western - and particularly English - stages. Mapping a history of masculinities onto a history of theatre, Michael Mangan analyses a wide range of plays and performances, from Henry V to Peter Pan, and from medieval liturgical drama to contemporary West-End hits. In the process Mangan offers new and gendered readings of several familiar plays, and traces an intricate relationship between theatrical performance and gender performance.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:276 pages, XI, 276 p.
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/10/2002
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- ISBN:9780333720196
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:276 pages, XI, 276 p.
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/10/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780333720196