Facial hair and the performance of masculinity on the early modern English stage
This thesis explores the role of beards in constructions of masculine type on the early modem stage. According to medical, cultural and literary discourses of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, facial hair marked adult manliness while beardlessness indicated boyhood. The presence or abse...
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University of Sussex
2008
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496813 |