{"product_id":"mangan-michael-staging-masculinities-9780333720196","title":"Staging Masculinities","description":"One man in his time plays many parts\/His acts being seven ages', asserts Shakespeare's Jacques, in a speech which foreshadows what has become a commonplace of contemporary gender theory: that masculinity, far from being a secure, unproblematic gender identity, is a site of crisis and contradictions. Staging Masculinities engages with the complex and paradoxical history of masculinities by exploring the ways in which changing concepts of what it means 'to be a man' have been represented, celebrated, examined and critiqued on mainstream Western - and particularly English - stages. Mapping a history of masculinities onto a history of theatre, Michael Mangan analyses a wide range of plays and performances, from Henry V to Peter Pan, and from medieval liturgical drama to contemporary West-End hits. In the process Mangan offers new and gendered readings of several familiar plays, and traces an intricate relationship between theatrical performance and gender performance.","brand":"Bloomsbury 3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53716224016726,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780333720196_1.jpg?v=1778876390","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/mangan-michael-staging-masculinities-9780333720196","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}