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Article: Fiona S. Dunlop, The Late Medieval Interlude: The Drama of Youth and Aristocratic Masculinity.(Book review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2008
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Fiona S. Dunlop, The Late Medieval Interlude: The Drama of Youth and Aristocratic Masculinity (York: York Medieval Press, 2007), viii + 141 pp. ISBN 1-90315321-2; 978-1-903153-21-5. 45.00 [pounds sterling].
Fiona S. Dunlop's The Late Medieval Interlude: The Drama of Youth and Aristocratic Masculinity builds on previous late medieval and early modern identity studies, focusing on prescribed attitudes towards the male identity in didactic texts. Examining five late medieval dramatic 'interludes'--Nature, Fulgens and Lucres, The Worlde and the Chylde, Youth, and Calisto and Melebea--the work attempts to demonstrate a desire in these plays to create 'noble' male ...