Shakespeare and masculinity

Author(s)

• Smith, Bruce R.

Bibliographic Information

Shakespeare and masculinity

Bruce R. Smith

（Oxford Shakespeare topics / general editors, Peter Holland and Stanley Wells）

Oxford University Press, 2000

• : pbk

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780198711889

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. 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.

Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• Persons
• Ideals
• Passages
• Others
• Coalescences
• Notes
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• Index

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780198711896

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. 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.

Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• Persons
• Ideals
• Passages
• Others
• Coalescences
• Notes
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• Index

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Details

• NCID: BA48388813
• ISBN:
  • 0198711891
  • 0198711883
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 182 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA45245285