The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture
| By: | C. Fitzgerald |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781403972774 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780230604995 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2007 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.