1st Edition
Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 1590–1603 "A Kingdom for a Man"
By Per Sivefors
Copyright 2020
172 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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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" and "Juvenalian" to describe these satires, this book argues that they engage with early modern... Read more
Introduction: Satire and Masculinity
1. John Donne’s Satires and the Precariousness of Masculine Self-Control
2. Violence and the Male in John Marston’s Certaine Satyres and The Scourge of Villanie
3. The Failure of Husbandry in Joseph Hall’s Virgidemiarum
4. Age and Manhood in Everard Guilpin’s Skialetheia
Coda: The Ban on Satire and the Representation of Masculinity
Biography
Per Sivefors is Associate Professor of English Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden.
