Exploring plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Mourning Men in Shakespeare's England argues that early modern playwrights deployed the classical lament so to consider the profound cultural trauma of the Reformation, but also complicate early understandings of masculinity.
Introduction: The Masculine Lament on Shakespeare's Stage
Chapter One: Thomas Kyd's Spanish Tragedy and Revenge as Lamentation
Chapter Two: Marlowe's Masculine Grief
Chapter Three: Winning at Losing: Hamlet's Competitive Sorrow
Chapter Four: King Lear's Violent Grief
Chapter Five: When the Bad Grieve, Then is the Tragedy Good: Feigned Grief in
The Revenger's Tragedy
Andrew D. McCarthy, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, USA.
