(European Drama and Performance Studies, n°10 – 2018)

“Masculinity and Theatre” aims to assess the way in which masculinity is defined in plays and performed on stage in European theatre over the centuries.

How are manliness, male rituals and norms staged or highlighted by playwrights, actors or stage directors? Are theatrical genres, theatricality and staging gendered, and if so, what can be identified as masculine or what may be masculinized? When did barriers between masculinity and femininity fade in the history of theatre (cf. ‘crying’ heroes in French tragedies in the 1660s or ‘viragos’ in comedies)?

Proposals should relate to one of the following themes:
1. Signs of masculinity/ies (behaviours and lifestyles, speeches, symbolic objects, male competitions… and their impact on theatrical genres or audiences)
2. Male ambiguities and uncertainties (forms of transgression; transgender characters; cross-dressing…)
3. Male bodies (male fashions; male theatrical make-up; masculinity/anti-masculinity in acting; manly or effeminate voice; masculinity and technology; masculinity, movements and/or dance)
4. Constructions or deconstructions of male identities; male stereotypes or hegemonic masculinities; aesthetics of masculinity

Please, send your proposal (300-400 words) and a short biography (about 10 lines) to Dr Chaouche (sabine.chaouche@new.ox.ac.uk) by 20 December 2016.

Articles:
Length: between 6 000 and 8 000 words
Language: English or French
Deadline: 10 June 2017