Staging Masculinities: History, Gender, Performance

Mangan, Michael

ISBN 10: 0333720199 / ISBN 13: 9780333720196

Published by Palgrave, 2002

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: MICHAEL MANGAN is Professor of Drama at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Staging Masculinities: History, Gender, ...
Publisher: Palgrave
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Like New