Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity

ISBN-13: 9781138578203 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 184 str.

Eleanor Rycroft

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Youth: Beardless boys;  2. Liminal masculinity;  3. Maturity: Lovers and bearded manhood;  4. Old age: Greybeards and the decline of manliness; Afterword: The nest of beards

O autorze

Eleanor Rycroft is a lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Bristol. A theatre historian of early English and Scottish drama, her research often involves practical explorations of plays. Recent publications include a co-edited special edition of The Shakespeare Bulletin, as well as book chapters for Oxford University Press, Palgrave, and Ashgate. She has written on material cultures of the early modern stage, theatre at the court of Henry VIII, practice-as-research, and the historical performance of witchcraft.