The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture

By Christina M. Fitzgerald

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140397277X
• ISBN13: 9781403972774
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.3"