Table of Contents

Introduction; G.Holderness The Artist as Historian; R.Ornstein Rituals of State/Strategies of Power; L.Tennenhouse History, Tragedy and Gender; L.Bamber The Shadow of the Male; C.Kahn Shakespearean Authority; R.Knapp Making Histories; C.Belsey Richard II: Metadrama and the Fall of Speech; J.L.Calderwood Henry IV, Part One: Rituals of Violence; D.Cohen Henry IV: Carnival and History; G.Holderness Henry V: Text and History; A.Patterson History and Ideology: Henry V; J.Dollimore & A.Sinfield.

About the Author

GRAHAM HOLDERNESS is Professor of Humanities at Hatfield Polytechnic.