Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity (Hardcover)

Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity is the first full-length critical study to analyse the importance of beards in terms of the theatrical performance of masculinity. According to medical, cultural, and literary discourses of early modern era in England, facial hair marked adult manliness while beardlessness indicated boyhood. Beards were therefore a passport to cultural prerogatives. This book explores this in relation to the early modern stage, a space in which the processes of gender formation in early modern society were writ large, and how the uses of facial hair in the theatre illuminate the operations of power and politics in society more widely. Written for scholars of Early Modern Theatre and Theatre History, this volume anatomises the role of beards in the construction of onstage masculinity, acknowledging the challenges offered to the dominant ideology of manliness by boys and men who misrepresented or failed to fulfil bearded masculine ideals.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
Release date:	July 2019
First published:	2020
Authors:	Eleanor Rycroft
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-57820-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
LSN:	1-138-57820-7
Barcode:	9781138578203

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