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The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture: The New Middle Ages

Autor C. Fitzgerald
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 iul 2007
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781403972774
ISBN-10: 140397277X
Pagini: 228
Ilustrații: XIII, 214 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:2007
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria The New Middle Ages

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction Men in the Household, Guild, and City The Domestic Scene: Patriarchal Fantasies and Anxieties in the Family and Guild Male Homosocial Communities and Public Life Acting Like a Man: Christ and Masculinity

Recenzii

"Fitzgerald has written a lively and provocative book on a neglected topic: the relationship of late medieval biblical dramas from York and Chester to the urban guild culture that produced them. In a series of deft textual readings, she argues for guild culture's centrality to the ideology, imagery, and idiom of these plays.This book convincingly establishes how - as text and performance - the biblical plays of late medieval York and Chester simultaneously represented and negotiated conflicts and tensions generated within urban communities intensely divided by age, status, and especially gender. The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture will prove rewarding reading for anyone interested in the social and cultural contexts of early English drama." - Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland
"By adding sex/gender to the mix, Fitzgerald's study radically transforms our understanding of the northern mystery cycles of Chester and York.Fitzgerald demonstrates that the plays, filled with conflicting fantasies of civic masculinity, are more than passively-received exercises in lay spirituality: they instead express the simultaneously hopeful and anxious desires of English guildsmen looking for secure identities in the chaotic environment of late medieval civic oligarchy.Especially welcome is her concluding chapter on the cycles' presentation of a masculinist Christ, a much-needed complication of previous attempts to read the plays in the light of female-centered affective piety." - Robert W. Barrett, Jr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"[This book] is a compelling intervention in contemporary drama criticism . . . it provides detailed close readings of a dazzling number of individual plays (over thirteen plays each in chapters 2 and 3) . . . The Drama of Masculinity makes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between guild culture and late-medieval drama, challenging the conventional vision of the drama as evnidence of the power and prestige of urban guilds by emphasizing the extent to which the dramas of York and Chester embody the demands of civic government on the guildsmen." - Speculum

Notă biografică

CHRISTINA FITZGERALD is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo in Ohio, USA.