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SHAKESPEARE AND MASCULINITY
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| By: |
Bruce R. Smith |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£29.99 |
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£26.24 |
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£3.75 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198711891 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198711896 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
7 September, 2000 |
| Series: |
Oxford Shakespeare Topics |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
Oxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare. Shakespeare and Masculinity studies Shakespeare's most memorable male characters in the light of the medical beliefs, ethical ideals, and social realities that shaped masculine identity in his time. Equally, the book explores male self-definition against various sorts of 'others' - women, foreigners, social inferiors, sodomites. It concludes with a transhistorical, multicultural survey of masculinity in international performance and with a challenge to imagine masculinity in fuller andmore satisfying ways. |
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Oxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare. Richard III, Romeo, Prince Harry, Malvolio, Hamlet, Lear, Antony, Coriolanus, Prospero: Shakespeare's roster of male protagonists is astonishingly various. Shakespeare and Masculinity juxtaposes these memorable characters with the medical beliefs, ethical ideals, and social realities that shaped masculine identity for Shakespeare, as for his fellow actors and their audiences. At the same time it explores the process of male self-definition against various sorts of 'others' - women, foreigners, social inferiors, sodomites. Reflecting the truth that the plays' principal existence is in the live theatre, the book finishes with a transhistorical, multicultural survey of how masculinity has been performed in productions of Shakespeare's plays - in France, Germany, Hungary, Iraq, Japan, and elsewhere - and with a challenge to imagine masculinity in fuller and more satisfying ways. |
| Illustrations: |
4 halftones and 2 line drawings |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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