Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: early modern manliness, early modern work
  • Work, bodies, and gender in The shoemaker's holiday and George A Greene, the pinner of Wakefield
  • Ruthless power and ambivalent glory: the rebel-labourer's body in plays of historical rebellion
  • What kind of man is bottom?: sex, civility, and manly difference in A midsummer night's dream, Love's labour's lost, and Sappho and Phao
  • "What do ye lack?" the shopkeeper's masculinity in early seventeenth-century plays of London
  • Conclusion: the stage and work, again.