Table of Contents

List of illustrations; 1. Shakespeare's history plays: 1952–1983 Dennis H. Burden; 2. Shakespeare and history: divergencies and agreements E. W. Ives; 3. Shakespeare's georgic histories James C. Bulman; 4. The nature of topicality in Love's Labour's Lost Mary Ellen Lamb; 5. The tragic substructure of the Henry IV plays Catherine M. Shaw; 6. Hal and the regent Jonathan Bate; 7. The rite of violence in Henry IV Derek Cohen; 8. The fortunes of Oldcastle Gary Taylor; 9. Hand D in Sir Thomas More: an essay in misinterpretation Giorgio Melchiori; 10. Livy, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare's Coriolanus Anne Barton; 11. Henry VIII and the ideal England Alexander Leggatt; 12. The strangeness of a dramatic style: rumour in Henry VIII Pierre Sahel; 13. 'Edgar I nothing am': Figurenposition in King Lear Michael E. Mooney; 14. 'Very like a whale': scepticism and seeing in The Tempest Robert B. Pierce; 15. Shakespeare's medical imagination Maurice Pope; 16. Shakespeare in the theatrical criticism of Henry Morley Russell Jackson; 17. Shakespeare performances in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, 1983–4 Nicholas Shrimpton; 18. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Brian Gibbons, Lois Potter and MacDonald P. Jackson; Index.

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