Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage -- Introduction: Early Modern Manliness, Early Modern Work, and the Early English Stage -- Work, Bodies, and Gender in The Shoemaker's Holiday and George A Greene, The Pinner of Wakefield -- Ruthless Power and Ambivalent Glory: The Rebel-Labourer's Body in Plays of Historical Rebellion -- What Kind of Man is Bottom? Sex, Civility, and Manly Difference in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, and Sappho and Phao -- "What do ye lack?" The Shopkeeper's Masculinity in Early Seventeenth-Century London Comedies -- Conclusion: The Stage and Work, Again -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.