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This volume presents a fresh look at the military spouses in
Shakespeare's 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's military families - domestic violence,
PTSD, infertility, the treatment of queer servicemembers, war
crimes, and the growing civil-military divide - pervade
Shakespeare's works. These parallels to the contemporary lived
experience are brought out through reference to memoirs written by
modern-day military spouses, sociological studies of the American
armed forces, and reports issued by the Department of Defence.
Shakespeare's military spouses create a discourse that recognizes
the role of the military in national defence but criticizes risky
or damaging behaviours and norms, promoting the idea of a martial
identity that permits military defence without the dangers of toxic
masculinity. Meeting at the intersection of Shakespeare Studies,
trauma studies, and military studies, this focus on military
spouses is a unique and unprecedented resource for academics in
these fields, as well as for groups interested in Shakespeare and
theatre as a way of thinking through and responding to psychiatric
issues and traumatic experiences.
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