Violent Masculinities

1. Introduction: Reclaiming Violent Masculinities
Jennifer Feather, Catherine E. Thomas

Part I. “Dispute It Like a Man”: Militant Masculinities

2. Militant Prologues, Memory, and Models of Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Henry V and Troilus and Cressida
Susan Harlan

3. Marlowe’s War Horses: Cyborgs, Soldiers, and Queer Companions
Timothy Francisco

4. Cutting Words and Healing Wounds: Friendship and Violence in Early Modern Drama
Jennifer Forsyth

Part II. “The Faith of Man”: Religion and Masculine Aggression

5. Virtus, Vulnerability, and the Emblazoned Male Body in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
Lisa S. Starks-Estes

6. Priestly Rulers, Male Subjects: Swords and Courts in Papal Rome
Laurie Nussdorfer

7. “Warring Spirits”: Martial Heroism and Anxious Masculinity in Milton’s Paradise Lost
Katharine Cleland

Part III. “Feel it as a Man”: Male Violence and Suffering

8. King Lear’s Violent Grief
Andrew D. McCarthy

9. Wild Civility: Men at War in Royalist Elegy
Catharine Gray

10. Occupy Macbeth: Masculinity and Political Masochism in Macbeth
Amanda Bailey

11. Melancholy and Spleen: Models of Masculinity in The Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley
Laurie Ellinghausen

12. Afterword
Coppélia Kahn

Nyckelord: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Gender Studies, Literary History