Staging Masculinities: History, Gender, Performance

di Michael Mangan (Autore)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002

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.

• Autore: Michael Mangan
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Anno: 2002
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 276 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• Peso: 374 gr.
• EAN: 9780333720196

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