136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
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The idea of toxic masculinity might feel like a very modern, even twenty-first century notion, but similar concerns about male behaviour, also often characterised in terms of poisons and poisoning, can be identified in the literature of 400 hundred years ago, not only in Shakespeare’s Othello and The Winter’s Tale but also lesser-known plays that were popular on the London stage in the... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Poisoned minds: cuckoldry, jealousy and insecure masculinity
Chapter 3 Poisonous words: misogynistic discourses and men slandering women
Chapter 4 Tragic masculinity: theatrical responses to real-life domestic violence
Chapter 5 Poisons and antidotes: fake poisonings, rehabilitated men and strong women
Biography
Anthony Archdeacon has an MPhil in medieval literature from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in renaissance literature from the University of Southampton. He has taught at universities in England, the United Arab Emirates and India.
