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The drama of masculinity and medieval English guild culture / Christina M. Fitzgerald.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fitzgerald, Christina M.
- Series:
- New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- The new Middle Ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Masculinity--England--History--To 1500.
- Masculinity.
- Drama, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Drama, Medieval.
- Men--England--Social life and customs.
- Men.
- Guilds--England--History--To 1500.
- Guilds.
- History.
- Manners and customs.
- England--Social life and customs--1066-1485.
- England.
- England--Social conditions--1066-1485.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 214 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- This book provides a needed new interpretation of the complex cultural meanings of the late medieval, guild-produced, biblical plays of York and Chester, England, commonly known as mystery plays. It argues that the plays are themselves a " drama of masculinity, " that is, dramatic activity specifically and self-consciously concerned with the fantasies and anxieties of being male in the urban, mercantile worlds of their performance. It further contends that the plays in their historical performance contexts produced and reinforced masculine communities defined by occupation, thus visibly naturalizing the world of work as masculine. The book offers welcome insight into a significant, canonical genre of dramatic literature that has been studied previously in devotional and civic contexts, but not yet in its role in the cultural history of masculinity.
- Contents:
- 1 Men in the Household, Guild, and City 13
- 2 The Domestic Scene: Patriarchal Fantasies and Anxieties in the Family and Guild 41
- 3 Male Homosocial Communities and Public Life 95
- 4 Acting Like a Man: The Solitary Christ and Masculinity 145.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-200) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 140397277X
- 9781403972774
- OCLC:
- 77767535
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- Publisher description
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