The Roaring Boy: Contested Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage

Daniel Gates

DOI:10.1353/mml.2013.0000

Corpus ID: 162217386

The Roaring Boy: Contested Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage

@article{Gates2013TheRB,
  title={The Roaring Boy: Contested Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage},
  author={Daniel Gates},
  journal={Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association},
  year={2013},
  volume={46},
  pages={43 - 54}
}

Daniel Gates
Published 2013
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Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association

The satirical representation of the roaring boy shows how men of a variety of social stations aped the belligerent, courtly, military styles of the upper class. And this stock figure highlights how the demimonde of early modern London, a site where social class is harder to determine with precision, was represented on stage.

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