A Companion to Shakespeares Works, Volume II: The Histories

This companion to Shakespeare s histories contains original essays on every history play from Henry VI to Henry V as well as fourteen additional articles on such topics as censorship in Shakespeare s histories, the relation of Shakespeare s plays to other dramatic histories of the period, Shakespeare s histories on film, the homoerotics of Shakespeare s history plays, and nation formation in Shakespeare s histories.

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction.

1. The Writing of History in Shakespeare s England (IvoKamps).

2. Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History (RichardHelgerson).

3. Censorship and the Problems with History inShakespeare s England (Cyndia Susan Clegg).

4. Nation Formation and the English History Plays (Patricia A.Cahill).

5. The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeare s EnglishHistories (Willy Maley).

6. Theories of Kingship in Shakespeare s England (WilliamC. Carroll).

7. "To beguile the time, look like the time": Contemporary FilmVersions of Shakespeare s Histories (Peter J. Smith).

8. The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre (PaulinaKewes).

9. Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeare sHistories (James Holstun).

10. Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy, andHomoerotics in Shakespeare s History Plays (Rebecca AnnBach).

11. French Marriages and the Protestant Nation inShakespeare s History Plays (Linda Gregerson).

12. The First Tetralogy in Performance (Ric Knowles).

13. The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation (LoisPotter).

14. 1 Henry VI (David Bevington).

15. Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations inShakespeare s 2 Henry VI (Thomas Cartelli).

16. Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in3 Henry VI (Kathryn Schwarz).

17. "The power of hope?" An Early Modern Reader of RichardIII (James Siemon).

18. King John (Virginia Mason Vaughan).

19. The King s Melting Body: Richard II (LisaHopkins).

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 Englishat Columbia University and a past president of the ShakespeareAssociation of America. She is an editor of The NortonShakespeare, and author of, among other works The Stage andSocial Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, withPhyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account ofShakespeare′s English Histories (1997) .

Richard Dutton is currently Professor of English at OhioState University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: theRegulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) andLicensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early ModernEngland:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the PalgraveLiterary Lives series.

"Whether for the student wishing for an overview of critical approaches or anxious to fill in the gaps in his Shakespearean culture, for those wishing to catch up on the diversity of literary theories, or for the inquisitive browser, this set of volumes assuredly charts the map of current criticism." Cahiers Elisabethains