"Engaging with Elizabethan understandings of masculinity, this book examines representations of manhood during the short-lived vogue for verse satire in the 1590s, by poets like John Donne, John Marston, Everard Guilpin and Joseph Hall. While criticism has often used categorical…
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"In the first comprehensive study of plays written for male characters only, Robert Vorlicky offers a new theory that links cultural codes governing gender and the conventions determining dramatic form. Act Like a Man looks at a range of plays, including those by O'Neill, Albee,…
This informative social history chronicles the rise and fall of an intriguing social phenomenon--the ideal of a gentleman--tracing its history from Chaucer's "gentle knight," through the Victorian era, to the present day
