SOURCE: "The Milking Babe and the Bloody Man in Coriolanus and Macbeth" in Man's Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare, University of California Press, 1981, pp. 151-92.
In the following essay, Kahn examines the false attempts of Macbeth and Coriolanus to become men through violent action.
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