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[[File:Diverse cover 4 front.jpg|thumb|Front cover of the book]]'''''Diverse Performances: Masculinities and the Victorian Stage''''' is a book by [[David Haldane Lawrence]], published in October 2014 by [[Paradise Press]].

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]] took on the task of editing it and preparing it for publication.

The main chapters etc of the book are as follows:

*Introduction: Masculine Ideology versus the stage
*Chapter One: Men in the audience
*Chapter Two: Men before and behind the scenes
*Chapter Three Men on the stage
*Chapter Four: Plays and playwrights: the struggle for control
*Chapter Five: Masculinity in comedy and melodrama
*Conclusion: Changing power structures in the Victorian theatre
*Appendix: The hard life of the Victorian actor

==External links==

*[http://www.foxearth.net/diverseperformances/ Official website]
*[http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=16&uin=uk.bl.ethos.437393 Birkbeck College: Text of the thesis]
*[http://www.paradisepress.org.uk/book/diverse-performances-masculinities-and-victorian-stage the book's page] on the Paradise Press website
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