'No soft and glutinous bodies': Militarism and masculinity in Marlowe and Jonson (Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson)

This dissertation examines the relationship between the military changes described in military manuals published in the latter half of the sixteenth-century and the portrayals of warfare and men who practice war in selected plays of Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson.; This study argues that the sweeping technological and social changes that were part of the military revolution of the sixteenth-century contribute to the negotiations of masculinity identified by many critics as a central concern of these plays.