Staging masculinities
Subtitle: history, gender, performance
By: Michael Mangan.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Men in literature.; Masculinity in literature.; Drama -- History and criticism.; English drama -- History and criticism.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-265) and index.