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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960035903321

Autore

Fitzgerald Christina Marie

Titolo

The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture / / by C. Fitzgerald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

9786611363338

9781281363336

1281363332

9780230604995

0230604994

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

The New Middle Ages, , 2945-5944

Disciplina

307.76081/0942

Soggetti

Great Britain - History

Literature

Sex

Literature, Medieval

Theater - History

Classical literature

Literature, Ancient

History of Britain and Ireland

Gender Studies

Medieval Literature

Theatre History

Classical and Antique Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Men in the Household, Guild, and City; 2 The Domestic Scene: Patriarchal Fantasies and Anxieties in the Family and Guild; 3 Male Homosocial Communities and Public Life; 4 Acting Like a Man: The Solitary Christ and Masculinity; Notes; Works Cited; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This study argues that late medieval English 'mystery plays' were about masculinity as much as Christian theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousness. Performed repeatedly by generations of merchants and craftsmen, these Biblical plays produced fantasies and anxieties of middle class, urban masculinity, many of which are familiar today.