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Author Fitzgerald, Christina M., author

Title The drama of masculinity and medieval English guild culture / Christina M. Fitzgerald
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages)
Series The new Middle Ages
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Contents Men in the Household, Guild, and City -- The Domestic Scene: Patriarchal Fantasies and Anxieties in the Family and Guild -- Male Homosocial Communities and Public Life -- Acting Like a Man: Christ and Masculinity
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Masculinity -- England -- History -- To 1500
Drama, Medieval -- History and criticism
Men -- England -- Social life and customs
Guilds -- England -- History -- To 1500
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Drama, Medieval
Guilds
Manners and customs
Masculinity
Men -- Social life and customs
Social conditions
SUBJECT England -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043320
England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043312
Subject England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230604995
0230604994
1281363332
9781281363336
140397277X
9781403972774