And by that I mean men who aren't heroes or warriors, men who aren't the focus of history. Minor characters, basically, but explored in a better way. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, something like that. I have in mind what T. S. Eliot says in Prufrock:

>No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
>Am an attendant lord, one that will do
>To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
>Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
>Deferential, glad to be of use,
>Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
>Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
>At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—
>Almost, at times, the Fool.