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Fitzgerald, Christina Marie.

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The mystery of men: Performing masculinity in the drama cycles of medieval York and Chester (England).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The mystery of men: Performing masculinity in the drama cycles of medieval York and Chester (England)./
Author:	Fitzgerald, Christina Marie.
Description:	445 p.
Notes:	Chair: V. A. Kolve.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-09A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3063944
ISBN:	0493826734

The mystery of men: Performing masculinity in the drama cycles of medieval York and Chester (England).
Fitzgerald, Christina Marie.

The mystery of men: Performing masculinity in the drama cycles of medieval York and Chester (England). - 445 p.

Chair: V. A. Kolve.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2002.

The “mystery plays” of York and Chester are as much about late medieval ideas of masculinity as they are about theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousness. Like the guildsmen who produced and performed them, they grapple with multiple masculinities and the sometimes irreconcilable roles of men in home, city, and religion. My approach to these drama cycles is thus as much ethnographic as it is literary and historical. I am interested in <italic>what</italic> and <italic>how</italic> these plays <italic>meant </italic> to the male guild culture that produced them.

ISBN: 0493826734Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

The mystery of men: Performing masculinity in the drama cycles of medieval York and Chester (England).
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520 $a The “mystery plays” of York and Chester are as much about late medieval ideas of masculinity as they are about theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousness. Like the guildsmen who produced and performed them, they grapple with multiple masculinities and the sometimes irreconcilable roles of men in home, city, and religion. My approach to these drama cycles is thus as much ethnographic as it is literary and historical. I am interested in <italic>what</italic> and <italic>how</italic> these plays <italic>meant </italic> to the male guild culture that produced them.
520 $a Chapter One, “Household, Guild, and City,” describes the socio-economic and political culture of late medieval guilds and of play production in York and Chester. A related Appendix presents in more detail the access that individual guilds had to status and wealth and the ways in which occupational identity was constructed, especially through play-production.
520 $a The rest of the dissertation focuses on the plays as particularly masculinist productions. Chapter Two, “The Domestic Scene: Patriarchal Fantasies and Anxieties in the Family and Guild,” addresses the subject of fathers, masters, and the often conflicting responsibilities of domestic and civic roles as played out in the cycles. Chapter Three, “Male Homosocial Communities and Public Life,” discusses the male groups that abound in the plays; in these scenes the chief fantasies and anxieties of guild life are enacted. Christ is the focus of Chapter Four, “Acting Like a Man: Christ and Masculinity.” There I argue that the drama's depiction of the central Christian story is different in execution and impact from the affective methods of private devotional works. Instead of focusing on Christ's suffering, the York and Chester cycles present Christ as a masculine ideal—at times very powerful and triumphant—but also as a man alienated from both the domestic and homosocial spheres. Moreover, the passion plays represent more strongly than any others the evils of homosocial community. Throughout the cycles—in representations of the domestic sphere, of homosocial communities, or in the passion and resurrection of Christ—the drama reflects deep anxieties about contemporary life for urban men, even as it attempts to inculcate ideals of behavior.
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