Staging Masculinities History, Gender, Performance,9780333720196

Staging Masculinities History, Gender, Performance

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ISBN13: 9780333720196
ISBN10: 0333720199
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Pub. Date: 2003-01-18
Publisher(s): Red Globe Pr
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Summary

Staging Masculinities is a critical history of the ways in which changing concepts of masculinity have been represented, explored, and critiqued on mainstream Western-and particularly English-stages. The study analyzes a wide variety of plays and performances, ranging from medieval liturgical drama to contemporary West-End hits, from Henry V to Oleanna , tracing a complex relationship between theatrical performance and gender performance.

Author Biography

Michael Mangan is Professor of Drama, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Staging Masculinities: Introduction and Orientation
1(22)
Dionysos in the classroom
1(6)
Masculinity and gender
7(4)
Two maps: the range and scope of the book
11(5)
The performance of gender/gender as performance
16(7)
Staging Medieval Masculinities
23(35)
Introduction
23(1)
Staging biblical narratives
24(18)
`He created them male and female': gender identity and the Creation myth according to Scripture and stage
26(9)
Myths of the father and the son
35(7)
Gendering moralities
42(7)
Outlaw and carnival masculinity: the folk plays and games of Robin Hood
49(9)
Sighing like a Furnace and Full of Strange Oaths: Lovers and Soldiers in Shakespeare
58(37)
All the world's a typology of masculinity...
58(3)
Anxiety and dominance: Petruccio, patriarchy, Patriarcha
61(8)
Hal and Falstaff
69(9)
Elizabeth's performance of masculinity and the Elizabethan crisis in gender relations
78(2)
Warrior women, warrior men
80(15)
The Spectacle of Masculinity in the Restoration Theatre
95(40)
Theatre and Restoration
95(1)
Actors and actresses: men watching women, women watching men
96(5)
Rochester, Charles II and symbolic masculinity
101(10)
The Royall Company of Whoremasters: Sodom (n.d.)
102(3)
Rakes and fops: The Man of Mode (1676)
105(6)
`In Mr. Wycherley everything is Masculine': Manlyness in the plays of Wycherley
111(24)
Strong women, weak men: The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672)
112(9)
`As bad as a Eunuch!': The Country Wife (1675)
121(5)
The importance of being Manly: The Plain Dealer (1676)
126(9)
Outlaws and Sentiment: Masculinities in the Eighteenth-Century Theatre
135(32)
Introduction
135(1)
The outlaw masculine
136(10)
Acting out the outlaw masculine
146(6)
`An open, generous manliness of Temper': mercantile masculinity in The London Merchant (1731)
152(15)
Doll's Houses and Wendy Houses: Masculinities on Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Stages
167(40)
Doors that slam: naturalism and masculinity
167(10)
Doors that don't: responses to A Doll's House
177(7)
`The dolls are not all female': Candida (1897)
184(9)
`No man in him at all': J. M. Barrie's lost boys
193(14)
Contemporary Masculinities
207(42)
Messages men hear
207(5)
`Just DO it!': film, theatre and masculinity
212(13)
Cartoons and cinematic techniques: Up `n' Under (1984)
216(5)
Men that hate women: Masterpieces (1983)
221(4)
Into the 1990s: pleading for the defence
225(20)
`I find that I am sexist': Oleanna (1992)
227(11)
Cavemen and other defendants
238(7)
Crises? What crises?
245(4)
Bibliography 249(17)
Index 266

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