Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-vii

List of Contributors

pp viii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-ix

List of Abbreviations

pp x-x

Introduction

pp 1-22

Part I - Models of Military Identity

pp 23-24

1 - ‘Warlike prowesse and manly courage’: Martial Conduct and Masculine Identity in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England

pp 25-55

2 - ‘The Breviarie of Soldiers’: Julius Caesar's Commentaries and the Fashioning of Early Modern Military Identity

pp 56-78

3 - ‘Souldiers, or Clarkes, or both’: Ralph Knevet and the Fashioning of Military Identity through Print and Performance in Caroline Norwich

pp 79-99

4 - Thomas, First Lord Fairfax and ‘The Highway to Heidelberg’

pp 100-118

Part II - Military Identities in Early odern Ireland

pp 119-120

5 - The Clergy and the Military in Early Modern Ireland

pp 121-137

6 - ‘Trust, Desert, Power and skill to serve’: The Old English and Military Identities in Late Elizabethan Ireland

pp 138-157

7 - Artifice in Ormonius: Why a Renaissance Latin Epic Falsified the Military History of a Tudor Irish General

pp 158-176

8 - Irish Savage and English Butcher: Military Identities and Tyrone's Rebellion, 1593-1603

pp 177-196

9 - A print in my body of this day's service’: Finding Meaning in Wounding During and After the Nine Years War

pp 197-218

Part III - Staging Military Identities

pp 219-220

10 - Othello and the Braggart Soldier in the Context of Elizabethan War Veterans

pp 221-234

11 - ‘Lay by thine Arms and take the Citie then’: Soldiery and City in the Drama of Thomas Middleton

pp 235-255

12 - ‘Sometimes a figure, sometimes a cipher’: Dramatic Assertions of Martial Identity, 1580-1642

pp 256-279

Afterword: The Way Ahead

pp 280-282

Bibliography

pp 283-308

Index

pp 309-316