Diverse Performances

Diverse Performances: Masculinities and the Victorian Stage is a book by David Haldane Lawrence, expected to be published during 2013.

It is based on David Lawrence's PhD thesis Masculinities and nineteenth-century British theatre : 1829 to 1901. He had updated it to prepare it for a wider audience, but died in 2009 and was unable to see it through to publication. Ross Burgess has taken on the task of editing it and preparing it for publication.

The main chapters of the book are as follows:


 * 1) Men in the Audience
 * 2) Men and the Creation of the Dramatic Performance
 * 3) Men on the Stage: Questions of Power and Subordination
 * 4) Dramatists and the Struggle for Control
 * 5) Masculinity in nineteenth-century British Comedy and Melodrama