ISBN-13: 9781403972774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 214 str.
ISBN-13: 9781403972774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 214 str.
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.