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Manly mechanicals on the early modern English stage
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- Creator
- Ronda Arab
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 225 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781575911595, 1575911736, 1575911590, 9781575911731
- OCLC
- ocn692084746, ocn757827325, ocn922966572
- Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: early modern manliness, early modern work -- Work, bodies, and gender in The shoemaker's holiday and George A Greene, the pinner of Wakefield -- Ruthless power and ambivalent glory: the rebel-labourer's body in plays of historical rebellion -- What kind of man is bottom?: sex, civility, and manly difference in A midsummer night's dream, Love's labour's lost, and Sappho and Phao -- "What do ye lack?" the shopkeeper's masculinity in early seventeenth-century plays of London -- Conclusion: the stage and work, again
Subjects
- English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
- English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Men in literature.
- Social classes in literature.
- Human body in literature.
- Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century.