Staging Masculinities: History, Gender, Performance - Couverture souple

Mangan, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0333720199 ISBN 13 : 9780333720196

Editeur : Palgrave, 2002

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333720199
• ISBN 13: 9780333720196
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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