The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre by Sean Metz... - 9781350438149

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and TheatreAuthor(s): Sean Metzger, Roberta Mock\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Methuen Drama\nISBN-13: 9781350438149, 978-1350438149\nSynopsis\nShortlisted for the 2024 TaPRA Edited Collection Prize\n\nThis is a guide to contemporary debates and theatre practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at the centre of explosive political battlegrounds.\n\nThe confluence of gender and theatre has long created intense debate about representation, identification, social conditioning, desire, embodiment, and lived experience. As this handbook demonstrates, from the conventions of early modern English, Chinese, Japanese and Hispanic theatres to the subversion of racialized binaries of masculinity and femininity in recent North American, African, Asian, Caribbean and European productions, the matter of gender has consistently taken centre stage. This handbook examines how critical discou.