Notes on Contributors.
Introduction.
1. The Writing of History in Shakespeare s England: Ivo Kamps.
2. Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History: Richard Helgerson.
3. Censorship and the Problems with History in Shakespeares England: Cyndia Susan Clegg.
4. Nation Formation and the English History Plays: Patricia A. Cahill.
5. The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeare s English Histories: Willy Maley.
6. Theories of Kingship in Shakespeare s England: William C. Carroll.
7. To beguile the time, Look like the time: Contemporary Film.
Versions of Shakespeare s Histories: Peter J. Smith.
8. The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre? Paulina Kewes.
9. Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeares Histories: James Holstun.
10. Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Homoerotics in Shakespeare s History Plays: Rebecca Ann Bach.
11. French Marriages and the Protestant Nation in Shakespeares: History Plays: Linda Gregerson.
12. The First Tetralogy in Performance: Ric Knowles.
13. The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation: Lois Potter.
14. 1 Henry VI: David Bevington.
15. Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations in Shakespeare’s Henry VI: Thomas Cartelli.
16. Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in 3 Henry VI: Kathryn Schwarz.
17. The power of hope An Early Modern Reader of Richard III: James Siemon.
18. King John: Virginia Mason Vaughan.
19. The Kings Melting Body: Richard II: Lisa Hopkins.
20. 1 Henry IV: James Knowles.
21. Henry IV, Part 2: A Critical History: Jonathan Crewe.
22. Henry V: Andrew Hadfield.
Index.
Jean E. Howard is William E. Ransford Professor of English
at Columbia University and a past president of the Shakespeare
Association of America. She is an editor of The Norton Shakespeare,
and author of, among other works The Stage and Social Struggle in
Early Modern England (1994) and, with Phyllis Rackin, of
Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English
Histories (1997).
Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at Lancaster University, author of Mastering the Revels: the Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama (1991) and Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern England:Buggeswords (2000). He is editor of the Palgrave Literary Lives series. From 2003, he will be Professor of English at Ohio State University.
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