{"product_id":"facial-hair-and-the-performance-eleanor-rycroft-9781138578203","title":"Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFacial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity\u003c\/em\u003e is the first full-length critical study to analyse the importance of beards in terms of the theatrical performance of masculinity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for scholars of Early Modern Theatre and Theatre History, this volume anatomises the role of beards in the construction of onstage masculinity, acknowledging the challenges offered to the dominant ideology of manliness by boys and men who misrepresented or failed to fulfil bearded masculine ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eleanor Rycroft\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138578207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138578203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.60d","brand":"Eleanor Rycroft","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48087745069311,"sku":"9781138578203","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_74df75cb-ac96-47fe-b86c-67837b50edb8.jpg?v=1769101164","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/facial-hair-and-the-performance-eleanor-rycroft-9781138578203","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}