Toxic Masculinity on the London Stage, 1600?1610
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 July 2025
- ISBN 9781032890449
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages144 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This volume discusses plays which depict the early modern male as both poisoned and poisoner - this book points to these plays as evidence of disquiet and anxieties to which we can still easily relate today.
MoreLong description:
The idea of toxic masculinity might feel like a very modern, even twenty-first-century notion, but similar concerns about male behaviour, also often characterised in terms of poisons and poisoning, can be identified in the literature of four hundred years ago, not only in Shakespeare?s Othello and The Winter?s Tale but also lesser-known plays that were popular on the London stage in the 1600s. Poison-related tropes, and the recurrent plot device of a man trying to poison a woman, expressed complex and sometimes contradictory attitudes towards socially unacceptable male behaviour. These plays depict the early modern male as both poisoned and poisoner ? poisoned by inherited misogynistic ideas and attitudes, and poisoner of women both literally and metaphorically. Seeing them as enacting problematic situations and raising difficult questions rather than simply offering the moral certitudes of Christianity or the prescriptions of contemporary conduct book, the book points to these plays as evidence of disquiet and anxieties to which we can still easily relate today. The fact that some plays responded to real life events such as familicide is an indicator of this socially responsible role of the theatre, engaging its audience in current issues and controversies. The use of the poison theme in relation to male violence and misogyny shows that the early modern theatre was engaging with such intractable problems in ways that are still thought-provoking today.
MoreTable of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Poisoned Minds: cuckoldry, jealousy and insecure masculinity
Chapter 3 Poisonous Words: misogynistic discourses and men slandering women
Chapter 4 Tragic Masculinity: theatrical responses to real life domestic violence
Chapter 5 Poisons and antidotes: fake poisonings, rehabilitated men, and strong women
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