The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture

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.

Author: C. Fitzgerald
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/19/2007
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.29h x 6.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781403972774

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