Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage.
Arab, Ronda.
Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (225 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage -- Introduction: Early Modern Manliness, Early Modern Work, and the Early English Stage -- 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 London Comedies -- Conclusion: The Stage and Work, Again -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781575911731
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.
Electronic books.
PR658.M275 -- A73 2011eb
822/.3093521
Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (225 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage -- Introduction: Early Modern Manliness, Early Modern Work, and the Early English Stage -- 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 London Comedies -- Conclusion: The Stage and Work, Again -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781575911731
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.
Electronic books.
PR658.M275 -- A73 2011eb
822/.3093521