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'''''Diverse Performances: Masculinities and the Victorian Stage''''' is a book by [[David Haldane Lawrence]], expected to be published during 2014.
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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]], expected to be published during 2014.
  
 
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 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]] has taken on the task of editing it and preparing it for publication by [[Paradise Press]].

Revision as of 22:53, 25 October 2014

Front cover of the book
Diverse Performances: Masculinities and the Victorian Stage is a book by David Haldane Lawrence, expected to be published during 2014.

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 by Paradise Press.

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

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