Unto the Breach

• One of the first studies of Renaissance literature to engage with the field of contemporary trauma theory
• Brings lesser read dramas into conversation with canonical texts
• Examines military texts usually neglected by literary scholars and cultural critics
• Explores the culture's gendering of warfare

Readership: Literary scholars and students interested in early modern drama and theatre history; historians and students of early modern England, especially those interested in military history; scholars working in the intersection of literature and psychoanalysis

Patricia A. Cahill, Assistant Professor, Emory University

"engagingly written" - Goran Stanivukovic, Times Literary Supplement

"Professor Cahill succeeds in providing fresh and original interpretations of familiar canonical texts and in illuminating insights into a number of more obscure non-canonical works"

"an original contribution to an expanding body of interdisciplinary work" - Literature and History

Introduction
1: Martial Formations: Marlowe's Theater of Abstraction in Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2
2: Spare Men and Great Ones: Musters, Norms, and the Average Man in Shakespeare's 1 and 2 Henry IV
3: Biopower in the English Pale: Generation and Genocide in King Edward III
4: Atrocity in Arcadia: Wounds, Women, and the Face of Trauma in The Trial of Chivalry
5: Wound-Man Walking: Visceral History andTraumatized Bodies in Alarum for London
Epilogue: Dreadful Marches: Traumatic Time and Space in Shakespeare's Richard III