SOURCE: McMullan, Gordon. “‘Thou Has Made Me Now a Man’: Reforming Man(ner)liness in Henry VIII.” In Shakespeare's Late Plays: New Readings, edited by Jennifer Richards and James Knowles, pp. 40-56. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
In the following essay, McMullan assesses Shakespeare's Henry VIII in relation to the Renaissance masculine ideal based upon restraint and moderation.
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