Violent Masculinities

Introduction: Reclaiming Violent Masculinities; Jennifer Feather and Catherine E. Thomas PART I: 'DISPUTE IT LIKE A MAN': MILITANT MASCULINITIES 1. Militant Prologues, Memory, and Models of Masculinity in Shakespeare's Henry V and Troilus and Cressida; Susan Harlan 2. Marlowe's War Horses: Cyborgs, Soldiers and Queer Companions; Timothy Francisco 3. Cutting Words and Healing Wounds: Friendship and Violence in Early Modern Drama; Jennifer Forsyth PART II: 'THE FAITH OF MAN': RELIGION AND MASCULINE AGGRESSION 4. Virtus, Vulnerability, and the Emblazoned Male Body in Shakespeare's Coriolanus ; Lisa S. Starks-Estes 5. Priestly Rulers, Male Subjects: Swords and Courts in Papal Rome; Laurie Nussdorfer 6. '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 7. King Lear 's Violent Grief; Andrew D. McCarthy 8. Wild Civility: Men at War in Royalist Elegy; Catharine Gray 9. Occupy Macbeth: Masculinity and Political Masochism in Macbeth ; Amanda Bailey 10. Melancholy and Spleen: Models of English Masculinity in Th e Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley ; Laurie Ellinghausen Afterword; Coppélia Kahn