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;