Staging Masculinities History, Gender,

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.

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

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

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Staging Masculinities History, Gender, Performance

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