New Release The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture

This study argues that late medieval English ‘mystery plays’ were about masculinity as much as Christian theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousness. Performed repeatedly by generations of merchants and craftsmen, these Biblical plays produced fantasies and anxieties of middle class, urban masculinity, many of which are familiar today.

CHRISTINA FITZGERALD is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo in Ohio, USA.