Manly mechanicals on the early modern English stage
By: Ronda Arab
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Selinsgrove
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781575911595
Subjects: Masculinity in literature; Theater; Social classes in literature; English drama; History and criticism; Men in literature; Human body in literature; History
Notes: Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: early modern manliness, early modern work; title: Work, bodies, and gender in The shoemaker's holiday and George A Greene, the pinner of Wakefield; title: Ruthless power and ambivalent glory: the rebel-labourer's body in plays of historical rebellion; title: What kind of man is bottom?: sex, civility, and manly difference in A midsummer night's dream, Love's labour's lost, and Sappho and Phao; title: "What do ye lack?" the shopkeeper's masculinity in early seventeenth-century plays of London; title: Conclusion: the stage and work, again.