Bronwen Price was a Principal Lecturer of English Literature at the University of Portsmouth until 2020. She is now an independent researcher and guest member of ERIBIA, Caen UniversityHilary Hinds is Professor of Literary Culture in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University

• Introduction – Bronwen Price and Hilary HindsPart 1 War and social unrest1 Images of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a history of the present – Simon Barker2 ‘Revellers of fate’: Thomas Salusbury’s ‘An Antimasque of Gypsies’ performed at Chirk Castle on 30 December, 1641 – Rebecca Bailey3 Satire, mock militarism and anti-provincial prejudice in ‘The Death of the Lord of Kyme’ – Christopher MarlowPart 2 Militarism, masculinity and gender4 Militarism in Shakespeare’s Henry VI – Not ‘keeping It dark’ – Franziska Quabeck5 Coriolanus, Fort-Da and the subject-as-object of war – Heather Hirschfeld6 Shakespeare and the discourse of revenge in Hamlet and Othello – John DrakakisPart 3 Shakespeare and twentieth-century militarism7 Shakespeare and the construction of an ideal soldier during the First World War – Monika Smialkowska8 Wartime Hamlet – Irena Makaryk9 Illyrian knights: Shakespeare, comedy, war – Simon BarkerReferencesAppendix: Simon Barker’s publicationsIndex