Staging Masculinities History, Gender, Performance

by Mangan, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780333720196
• ISBN10: 0333720199
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-18
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

Staging Masculinities is a critical history of the ways in which changing concepts of masculinity have been represented, explored, and critiqued on mainstream Western-and particularly English-stages. The study analyzes a wide variety of plays and performances, ranging from medieval liturgical drama to contemporary West-End hits, from Henry V to Oleanna , tracing a complex relationship between theatrical performance and gender performance.

Author Biography

Michael Mangan is Professor of Drama, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Staging Masculinities: Introduction and Orientation	1	(22)
Dionysos in the classroom	1	(6)
Masculinity and gender	7	(4)
Two maps: the range and scope of the book	11	(5)
The performance of gender/gender as performance	16	(7)
Staging Medieval Masculinities	23	(35)
Introduction	23	(1)
Staging biblical narratives	24	(18)
`He created them male and female': gender identity and the Creation myth according to Scripture and stage	26	(9)
Myths of the father and the son	35	(7)
Gendering moralities	42	(7)
Outlaw and carnival masculinity: the folk plays and games of Robin Hood	49	(9)
Sighing like a Furnace and Full of Strange Oaths: Lovers and Soldiers in Shakespeare	58	(37)
All the world's a typology of masculinity...	58	(3)
Anxiety and dominance: Petruccio, patriarchy, Patriarcha	61	(8)
Hal and Falstaff	69	(9)
Elizabeth's performance of masculinity and the Elizabethan crisis in gender relations	78	(2)
Warrior women, warrior men	80	(15)
The Spectacle of Masculinity in the Restoration Theatre	95	(40)
Theatre and Restoration	95	(1)
Actors and actresses: men watching women, women watching men	96	(5)
Rochester, Charles II and symbolic masculinity	101	(10)
The Royall Company of Whoremasters: Sodom (n.d.)	102	(3)
Rakes and fops: The Man of Mode (1676)	105	(6)
`In Mr. Wycherley everything is Masculine': Manlyness in the plays of Wycherley	111	(24)
Strong women, weak men: The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672)	112	(9)
`As bad as a Eunuch!': The Country Wife (1675)	121	(5)
The importance of being Manly: The Plain Dealer (1676)	126	(9)
Outlaws and Sentiment: Masculinities in the Eighteenth-Century Theatre	135	(32)
Introduction	135	(1)
The outlaw masculine	136	(10)
Acting out the outlaw masculine	146	(6)
`An open, generous manliness of Temper': mercantile masculinity in The London Merchant (1731)	152	(15)
Doll's Houses and Wendy Houses: Masculinities on Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Stages	167	(40)
Doors that slam: naturalism and masculinity	167	(10)
Doors that don't: responses to A Doll's House	177	(7)
`The dolls are not all female': Candida (1897)	184	(9)
`No man in him at all': J. M. Barrie's lost boys	193	(14)
Contemporary Masculinities	207	(42)
Messages men hear	207	(5)
`Just DO it!': film, theatre and masculinity	212	(13)
Cartoons and cinematic techniques: Up `n' Under (1984)	216	(5)
Men that hate women: Masterpieces (1983)	221	(4)
Into the 1990s: pleading for the defence	225	(20)
`I find that I am sexist': Oleanna (1992)	227	(11)
Cavemen and other defendants	238	(7)
Crises? What crises?	245	(4)
Bibliography	249	(17)
Index	266