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Set in 11 on 13 pt Garamond 3 by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd, Hong Kong Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall For further information on Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com Contents Notes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 1 The Writing of History in Shakespeare’s England 4 Ivo Kamps 2 Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History 26 Richard Helgerson 3 Censorship and the Problems with History in Shakespeare’s England 48 Cyndia Susan Clegg 4 Nation Formation and the English History Plays 70 Patricia A. Cahill 5 The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeare’s English Histories 94 Willy Maley 6 Theories of Kingship in Shakespeare’s England 125 William C. Carroll 7 “To beguile the time, look like the time”: Contemporary Film Versions of Shakespeare’s Histories 146 Peter J. Smith 8 The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre? 170 Paulina Kewes 9 Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeare’s Histories 194 James Holstun vi Contents 10 Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Homoerotics in Shakespeare’s History Plays 220 Rebecca Ann Bach 11 French Marriages and the Protestant Nation in Shakespeare’s History Plays 246 Linda Gregerson 12 The First Tetralogy in Performance 263 Ric Knowles 13 The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation 287 Lois Potter 14 1 Henry VI 308 David Bevington 15 Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI 325 Thomas Cartelli 16 Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in 3 Henry VI 344 Kathryn Schwarz 17 “The power of hope?” An Early Modern Reader of Richard III 361 James Siemon 18 King John 379 Virginia Mason Vaughan 19 The King’s Melting Body: Richard II 395 Lisa Hopkins 20 1 Henry IV 412 James Knowles 21 Henry IV, Part 2: A Critical History 432 Jonathan Crewe 22 Henry V 451 Andrew Hadfield Index 468 Notes on Contributors Rebecca Ann Bach is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of Colonial Transformations: The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World, 1580–1640 (2000) and has published articles on early modern English drama and culture in Renaissance Drama, Textual Practice, SEL, and other journals and collections. She is currently completing a book entitled Early Modern England Without Heterosexuality. David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1967. His studies include From “Mankind” to Marlow(1962), TudorDrama and Politics(1968), and Action is Eloquence: Shakespeare’s Language of Gesture (1985). He is also the editor of Medieval Drama (1975), the Bantam Shakespeare in 29 paperback volumes (1988), and The Complete Works of Shakespeare (1992; updated 1997), as well as the Oxford 1 Henry IV (1987), the Cambridge Antony and Cleopatra (1990), and the Arden 3 Troilus and Cressida (1998). He is the senior editor of the Revels Student Editions, and is a senior editor of the Revels Plays and of the forthcoming Cambridge edition of the works of Ben Jonson. He is also senior editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama. Patricia A. Cahill is an Assistant Professor of English at Emory University. She is completing a book on Elizabethan drama to be entitled Tales of Iron Wars: Martial Bodies and Manly Economies in Early Modern English Culture. William C. Carroll is Professor of English at Boston University. Among his recent works are The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy (1985), Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations ofPoverty in the Age ofShakespeare(1996), and Macbeth: Texts and Contexts (1999); he is editor of the Arden edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona (forthcoming). viii Notes on Contributors Thomas Cartelli is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Muhlenberg College. He is the author of Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations (1999) and Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience (1991), as well as numerous essays and reviews. His chapter in this volume forms part of a work-in-progress entitled Producing Disorder: The Construction of Misrule in Early Modern England and New England. Cyndia Susan Cleggis Distinguished Professor of English at Pepperdine University. She has most recently published Press Censorship in Jacobean England (2001) and Press Censorship in Elizabethan England (1997). Her articles on Renaissance literature, cen- sorship, and the history of the book appear in prominent journals and essay collec- tions. She is currently working on a study of print and parliament. Jonathan Crewe is Willard Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College. He has pub- lished extensively on early modern and contemporary writing, and has recently edited five plays and the narrative poems for the new Pelican Shakespeare. Linda Gregerson is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic and is currently at work on The Commonwealth of the Word: Nation and Reformation in Early Modern England. Andrew Hadfield is currently visiting Professor of English at Columbia University and is the author of numerous monographs and edited collections. His most recent works are The English Renaissance(Blackwell, 2000), The Cambridge Companion to Spenser (2001), and Amazons, Savages and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550–1630 (2001). He is the general editor of the Arden Critical Companions (with Paul Hammond) and his Shakespeare and Renaissance Political Culture will appear in 2003. Richard Helgerson is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book is Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting (2000). He is also the author of The Elizabethan Prodigals (1976), Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton and the Literary System (1983), and Forms ofNationhood: TheElizabethanWriting ofEngland(1992), which won the British Council Prize in the Humanities and the Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize. James Holstun teaches English literature at the State University of New York, Buffalo. He is the editor of Pamphlet Wars: Prose in the English Revolution (1992) and the author of ARationalMillennium: Puritan Utopias of Seventeenth-Century England and Notes on Contributors ix America (1987) and Ehud’s Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution (2000). He is at work on a study of Tudor rebellions and reactions to them. Lisa Hopkins is a Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University and editor of Early Modern Literary Studies. Her most recent publications are The Female Hero in English Renaissance Tragedy (2002) and Writing Renaissance Queens: Texts By and About Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots (2002). Ivo Kampsis Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi and the author of Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama (1996). He is the series editor for the Early Modern Cultural Studies Series, 1500–1700 for Palgrave Press. With Jyotsna Singh he is co-editor of Travel Knowledge: European “Discoveries” in the Early Modern Period (2001), and he is one of the editors of the forthcoming Oxford edition of the complete works of Thomas Middleton. He is currently working with Karen Raber on a Texts and Contexts edition of Measure for Measure for Bedford Press. Paulina Kewes is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her publications include Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for the Stage in England, 1660–1710 (1998) and essays on Shakespeare, Dryden, and Renaissance, Restoration, and eighteenth-century drama. She has edited a volume of essays on Plagiarism in Early Modern England (2003), and is now completing a book on representations of history in Elizabethan and Stuart drama. James Knowles teaches at the University of Stirling. He has worked extensively on the Jacobean masque and discovered Jonson’s lost Entertainment at Britain’s Burse (1609) in 1997. He edited a collection of essays on Shakespeare’s late plays (with Jennifer Richards) and The Roaring Girl and Other Plays (2001). He is currently editing the complete entertainments and selected masques for the forthcoming Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson (2005) and writing a book on early modern masquing culture. Ric Knowles is Professor of Drama at the University of Guelph and at the Graduate Center for the Study of Drama, University of Toronto. He is an editor of Canadian Theatre Review and editor in chief of Modern Drama, and he has published extensively on Shakespeare in performance and on contemporary Canadian drama and theatre. His book The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaningwon the 2001 Ann Saddlemyer Prize. Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. His publications include A Spenser Chronology (1994) and Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity (1997). He has edited, with Andrew Hadfield and Brendan Bradshaw, Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins ofConflict, 1543–1660(1993), with Andrew Hadfield, A View of the Present State of Ireland: From the First Published x Notes on Contributors Edition(Blackwell, 1997), and with David Baker, a collection of essays entitled British Identities and English Renaissance Literature (2002). Lois Potter is Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware. She has edited The Two Noble Kinsmen for the Arden Shakespeare and recently published a study of Othello in the Shakespeare in Performance series by Manchester University Press. She has published on Shakespeare, Milton, the English Civil War, theatre history, and Robin Hood, and is also a frequent reviewer of plays. Her current project is a biography of Shakespeare. Kathryn Schwarz is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance (2000) and is working on a new project tentatively entitled “Femininity and Intention in Early Modern England.” James Siemon is Professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of ShakespeareanIconoclasm (1985) and Word Against Word: Shakespearean Utterance (2002). He has edited the New Mermaid Jew of Malta (1994) and is currently editing the Arden 3 Richard III. Peter J. Smith is Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University. His interests are in the areas of Renaissance literature and drama with special reference to performance theory and history. His publications include Social Shakespeare: Aspects of Renaissance Dramaturgy and Contemporary Society (1995) and Hamlet: Theory in Practice (co-edited with Nigel Wood, 1996). He has edited Marlowe’s Jew of Malta (1994) and Edward II (1998). Since 1992 he has been associate editor of the international journal of Renaissance studies, Cahiers Elisabéthains. Virginia Mason Vaughan is the Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein ’64 Distinguished Professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is the author of Othello: A Contextual History and the co-editor of the Arden 3 The Tempest.