Representing masculinity in early modern English satire, 1590-1603 : a kingdom for a man /
Engaging with Elizabethan understandings of masculinity, this book examines representations of manhood during the short-lived vogue for verse satire in the 1590s, by poets like John Donne, John Marston, Everard Guilpin and Joseph Hall. While criticism has often used categorical adjectives like angry...
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2020
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| Series: | Routledge studies in Renaissance and early modern worlds of knowledge
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: satire and masculinity
- John Donnes satires and the precariousness of masculine self-control
- Violence and the male in John Marstons Certaine satyres and The scourge of villanie
- The failure of husbandry in Joseph Halls Virgidemiarum
- Age and manhood in Everard Guilpins Skialetheia
- Coda: the ban on satire and the representation of masculinity