Shakespeares Military Spouses and Twenty-First, Ridge Hardcover..

Taylor & Francis

This volume presents a fresh look at the military spouses in Shakespeare\u2019s Othello, 1 Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, and Coriolanus, vital to understanding the plays themselves. By analysing the characters as military spouses, we can better understand current dynamics in modern American civilian and military culture as modern American military spouses live through the War on Terror. Shakespeare's Military Spouses and Twenty-First-Century Warfare explains what these plays have to say about the role of military families and cultural constructions of masculinity both in the texts themselves and in modern America. Concerns relevant to today\u2019s military families \u2013 domestic violence, PTSD, infertility, the treatment of queer servicemembers, war crimes, and the growing civil-military divide \u2013 pervade Shakespeare\u2019s works. These parallels to the contemporary lived experience are brought out through reference to memoirs written by modern-day mil.