Melancholy Men and English Renaissance Drama: from Marlowe to Ford.

我的研究探讨了文艺复兴时期的作家，以及他们对忧郁的态度，在这一时期被男性气质和心理学的概念化所告知和启发。被认为是“忧郁的黄金时代”（Starobinski，1960），文艺复兴时期的情感丰富性在最近的学术研究中已经得到了很好的证实，但这样的工作缺乏通过男性研究的透镜对忧郁的细微差别的具体洞察。对1586年至1638年之间创作的经典和较少研究的戏剧进行了仔细的解释性阅读-这一时期跨越了第一次出版的埃西·布莱特的“忧郁的解剖”，直到罗伯特·伯顿去世前的最后一次出版的“忧郁的解剖”-发现了一系列重要的戏剧和非文学出版物，涉及文艺复兴时期的忧郁含义。通过发展Broomhall和货车Gent（2011）的关系男性气质理论，我的研究将戏剧作品与一系列医学文本和论文配对，以说明文艺复兴时期对男性气质的理解的新视角。将这种有效的文本分析类别与Shields（2002）的性别对情感的持续影响理论相结合，我的研究为日益增长的男性研究领域做出了独特的贡献。在当代对性别理解的关键时刻，我的研究质疑我所选择的文学作品周围的历史环境中的相关变化如何影响文艺复兴时期对男性气质的态度。

My research examines the ways in which Renaissance writers, and their approaches to melancholy, were informed and inspired by conceptualisations of masculinity and psychology in the period. Considered the "golden age of melancholy" (Starobinski, 1960), the emotional richness of the Renaissance has been well-established in recent scholarship, yet such work lacks specific insight into nuances of melancholy through the lens of masculine studies. Close interpretive readings of canonical and lesser-studied plays written between 1586 and 1638 - the period spanning the first publication of Timothie Bright's 'Treatise of Melancholy' to the final publication of Robert Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy' before his death - have uncovered a range of important dramatic and non-literary publications engaging with Renaissance meanings of melancholy. By developing Broomhall and Van Gent's (2011) theory of relational masculinity, my study pairs dramatic works with a range of medical texts and treatises to illustrate new perspectives on Renaissance understandings of melancholic masculinity. Pairing this effective category of textual analysis with Shields' (2002) theory of the continuing influence of gender upon emotion, my research provides a unique contribution to the growing field of masculine studies. At a critical moment for contemporary understandings of gender, my study questions how relevant changes within the historical milieu surrounding my chosen literature affected Renaissance attitudes towards melancholic masculinity.