Jean E. Howard & Richard Dutton 
A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume II [PDF ebook] 
The Histories

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.

* Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world – Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

* Examines each of Shakespeare’s plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.

* Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.

* Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.

* Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.

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.

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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
Shakespeare’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 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 Shakespeare’s
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
Shakespeare’s 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 2 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 King’s 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.

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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 Ohio
State University. He is author of Mastering the Revels: the
Regulation and Censorship of Renaissance Drama(1991) and
Licensing, Censorship and Authorship in Early Modern
England:Buggeswords(2000), and editor of the Palgrave
Literary Lives series.