MATTHEW WOODCOCK is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He has published widely on Elizabethan and Renaissance Literature.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on the TextsIntroductionMaking the Text: Date, Sources, Textual HistoryThe Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century: Neoclassicism and Early EditionsThe Nineteenth-Century: Romantic and Victorian InterpretationsThe Early Twentieth-Century: What Makes a Good King?The Mid-Twentieth-Century: History, War and EpicThe Mid to Late Twentieth Century: Ambivalence and PlayThe Later Twentieth Century and Beyond: Power, Subversion and MasculinityA Play for the New Millennium: Nationhood, Memory and Just WarConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex.

MATTHEW WOODCOCK is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He has published widely on Elizabethan and Renaissance Literature.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on the TextsIntroductionMaking the Text: Date, Sources, Textual HistoryThe Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century: Neoclassicism and Early EditionsThe Nineteenth-Century: Romantic and Victorian InterpretationsThe Early Twentieth-Century: What Makes a Good King?The Mid-Twentieth-Century: History, War and EpicThe Mid to Late Twentieth Century: Ambivalence and PlayThe Later Twentieth Century and Beyond: Power, Subversion and MasculinityA Play for the New Millennium: Nationhood, Memory and Just WarConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex.

MATTHEW WOODCOCK is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He has published widely on Elizabethan and Renaissance Literature.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on the TextsIntroductionMaking the Text: Date, Sources, Textual HistoryThe Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century: Neoclassicism and Early EditionsThe Nineteenth-Century: Romantic and Victorian InterpretationsThe Early Twentieth-Century: What Makes a Good King?The Mid-Twentieth-Century: History, War and EpicThe Mid to Late Twentieth Century: Ambivalence and PlayThe Later Twentieth Century and Beyond: Power, Subversion and MasculinityA Play for the New Millennium: Nationhood, Memory and Just WarConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex.