 Staging masculinities, history, gender, performance.
Author: Mangan, Michael Published: 2003 Masculinity, far from being a secure, unproblematic gender identity, is a site of crisis and contradictions. Michael Mangan's book engages with the complex and parodoxical 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, Mangan analyses a wide range of plays and performances, from Henry V to Peter Pan, and from mediaeval liturgical drama to contemporary West End hits. |
