1st Edition
Marlowe's Soldiers Rhetorics of Masculinity in the Age of the Armada
By Alan Shepard
Copyright 2002
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Shepard argues that the Marlowe plays wrestle with the philosophical assumptions about the nature of war and the role and status of soldiers in English culture.
He argues about how these soldiers were being embedded in those years in contemporary military handbooks penned by veterans of war, in homilies, royal proclamations, poems, pamphlets, and other plays, Shakespeare's included.
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Alan Shepard
