Descript |
225 p. ; 25 cm. |
Note |
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001. |
Contents |
Introduction: early modern manliness, early modern work -- 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 plays of London -- Conclusion: the stage and work, again. |
ISBN |
9781575911595 (hbk.) |
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1575911590 (hbk.) |
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