Violent Masculinities

Amanda Bailey, University of Maryland, USA Katharine Cleland, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Laurie Ellinghausen, University of Missouri, USA Jennifer Forsyth, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA Timothy Francisco, Youngstown State University, USA Catharine Gray, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, USA Susan Harlan, Wake Forest University, USA Coppelia Kahn, Brown University, USA Andrew D. McCarthy, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, USA Laurie Nussdorfer, Wesleyan University, USA Lisa S. Starks-Estes, South Florida St. Petersburg, USA

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