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The article examines the features of masculinity as they appear in three plays from the 1950s set in rural Australia - an environment conventionally regarded as a place of authenticy for men - and discusses the uses to which these depictions of masculinity are put. The aims of the article are in part dramaturgical: 'to think about the relationship between the scripts of the plays and the time in which they were first performed, and to ask questions about how these plays worked in relation to changing possibilities for the performance of gender' (38).
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What's a Man to Do? Images of Rural Australian Masculinities in Three Plays of the 1950s : Reedy River, The Bastard Country and Lola Montez
Australasian Drama Studies
Australasian Drama Studies
Subjects:
- Reedy River 1953 single work musical theatre
- Lola Montez 1958 single work musical theatre
- Fire on the Wind 1959 single work drama
- 1950s
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