This is the first book to focus on the relationships which men formed with their wives in early modern England, making it an important contribution to a new und

This path-breaking study explores the diverse and varied meanings of manhood in early modern England and their complex, and often contested, relationship with p

Explores how classical and gendered conceptions of tyranny shaped early Stuart understandings of monarchy and the development of republican thought.

Explores the importance of heterosexual masculine identity in Renaissance literature and culture.

Offering new readings of works by Shakespeare, Spenser, and their contemporaries, this study examines the profound impact of the cultural shift in the English a