New Historicism and Renaissance Drama

Professor Richard Wilson is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University, London.Richard Dutton is Humanities Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Faculty of English at Ohio State University, USA.

• Introduction: Historicising New Historicism, Richard Wilson; Chapter 1 The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies, Jean E. Howard; Chapter 2 Literature, History, Polities, Catherine Belsey; Chapter 3 Shakespeare, Cultural Materialism and the New Historicism, Jonathan Dollimore; Chapter 4 Marlowe and the Will to Absolute Play, Stephen Greenblatt; Chapter 5 Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion, Henry IV and Henry V, Stephen Greenblatt; Chapter 6 A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Shaping Fantasies of Elizabethan Culture: Gender, Power, Form, Louis Montrose; Chapter 7 Alice Arden‘s Crime, Catherine Belsey; Chapter 8 Shakespeare’s Roman Carnival, Richard Wilson; Chapter 9 Hamlet’s Unfulfilled Interiority, Francis Barker; Chapter 10 Macbeth: History, Ideology and Intellectuals, Alan Sinfield; Chapter 11 The White Devil: Transgression Without Virtue, Jonathan Dollimore; Chapter 12 Family Rites: City Comedy and the Strategies of Patriarchalism, Leonard Tennenhouse; Chapter 13 Smithfield and Authorship: Ben Jonson, Peter Stallybrass, Allon White; Postscript, Richard Dutton;