The Roaring Boy: Contested Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage
@article{Gates2014TheRB,
title={The Roaring Boy: Contested Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage},
author={Daniel Gates},
journal={Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association},
year={2014},
volume={46},
pages={43 - 54}
}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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