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Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity

Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity

Rycroft, Eleanor

Paperback

Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

Theater HistoryPlaysShakespeare

ISBN10: 1032177888
ISBN13: 9781032177885
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 30 2021
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

According to medical, cultural, and literary discourses of early modern era in England, facial hair marked adult manliness while beardlessness indicated boyhood. Beards were therefore a passport to cultural prerogatives. This book explores this in relation to the early modern stage, a space in which the processes of gender formation in early modern society were writ large, and how the uses of facial hair in the theatre illuminate the operations of power and politics in society more widely.

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