Staging Masculinities

Staging Masculinities
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Publisher : Palgrave
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 0333720180
ISBN-13 : 9780333720189
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Staging Masculinities by : Michael Mangan

Download or read book Staging Masculinities written by Michael Mangan and published by Palgrave. This book was released on 2002-10-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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