Chapter 1 Introduction: Reclaiming Violent Masculinities

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

Chapter 4 Cutting Words and Healing Wounds: Friendship and Violence in Early Modern Drama

Chapter 5 Virtus , Vulnerability, and the Emblazoned Male Body in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus

Chapter 6 Priestly Rulers, Male Subjects: Swords and Courts in Papal Rome

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

Chapter 8 King Lear’s Violent Grief

Chapter 9 Wild Civility: Men at War in Royalist Elegy

Chapter 10 Occupy Macbeth: Masculinity and Political Masochism in Macbeth

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

Chapter 12 Afterword