| Reviews |
| - 'Smith puts forward a wide variety of thought-provoking approaches ... Smith makes the study of Shakespeare's masculinities accessible for the modern student' - Notes and Queries
- 'This is a brilliant, brave, scholarly book with innumerable insights into Shakespearean texts.' - Modern Language Review
- 'The jewel of this collection is Bruce R. Smith's Shakespeare and Masculinity
, which is not only a model of what such an introduction to Shakespeare should be, but an outstanding study of the problems of gender analysis. This is a very good book.
' - Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement
- 'Oxford University Press offer a mix of engagingly written introductions to a variety of Topics intended largely for undergraduates. Each author has clearly been reading and listening to the most recent scholarship, but they wear their learning lightly.' - Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement
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| Description | | - An accessible account of the numerous different kinds of masculine identity in Shakespeare's plays
- Places Shakespeare's protagonists in the context of early modern views of the body, drawing on contemporary medical, ethical, and social ideas
- Unlike previous writers on the subject, Smith deploys a range of different critical approaches to the subject, and shows how stage productions - both at different historical times and in different countries - can challenge and modify our conception of the masculine in Shakespeare.
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Oxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, including some general anthologies relating to Shakespeare.
Richard III, Romeo, Prince Harry, Malvolio, Hamlet, Lear, Antony, Coriolanus, Prospero: Shakespeare's roster of male
protagonists is astonishingly various. Shakespeare and Masculinity
juxtaposes these memorable characters with the medical beliefs, ethical ideals, and social realities that shaped masculine identity for Shakespeare, as for his fellow actors and their audiences. At the same time it explores the process of male self-definition against various sorts of 'others' - women, foreigners, social
inferiors, sodomites. Reflecting the truth that the plays' principal existence is in the live theatre, the book finishes with a transhistorical, multicultural survey of how masculinity has been performed in productions of Shakespeare's plays - in France, Germany, Hungary, Iraq, Japan, and elsewhere - and with a challenge to imagine masculinity in fuller and more satisfying ways.
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Readership: Shakespeare students at advanced undergraduate level, teachers of Shakespeare in schools.
| Contents |
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Persons
Ideals
Passages
Others
Coalescences
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Bruce R. Smith, Professor of English, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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