Jean E Howard, Marion F O'Connor

• 1. Political criticism of Shakespeare 2. Power, politics, and the Shakespearean text: recent criticism in England and the United States 3. Theatre of the Empire: Shakespeare's England at Earl's Court, 1912 4. Prospero in Africa: The Tempest as colonialist text and pretext 5. The Order of the Garter, the cult of Elizabeth, and class-gender tension in The Merry Wives of Windsor 6. And wash the Ethiop white: femininity and the monstrous in Othello 7. Renaissance antitheatricality and the politics of gender and rank in Much Ado About Nothing 8. Which is the merchant here? And which the Jew?: subversion and recuperation in The Merchant of Venice 9. Lenten butchery: legitimation crisis in Coriolanus 10. The failure of orthodoxy in Coriolanus 11. Speculations: Macbeth and source 12. Towards a literary theory of ideology: mimesis, representation, authority

Jean E Howard, Marion F O'Connor

• 1. Political criticism of Shakespeare 2. Power, politics, and the Shakespearean text: recent criticism in England and the United States 3. Theatre of the Empire: Shakespeare's England at Earl's Court, 1912 4. Prospero in Africa: The Tempest as colonialist text and pretext 5. The Order of the Garter, the cult of Elizabeth, and class-gender tension in The Merry Wives of Windsor 6. And wash the Ethiop white: femininity and the monstrous in Othello 7. Renaissance antitheatricality and the politics of gender and rank in Much Ado About Nothing 8. Which is the merchant here? And which the Jew?: subversion and recuperation in The Merchant of Venice 9. Lenten butchery: legitimation crisis in Coriolanus 10. The failure of orthodoxy in Coriolanus 11. Speculations: Macbeth and source 12. Towards a literary theory of ideology: mimesis, representation, authority

Jean E Howard, Marion F O'Connor

• 1. Political criticism of Shakespeare 2. Power, politics, and the Shakespearean text: recent criticism in England and the United States 3. Theatre of the Empire: Shakespeare's England at Earl's Court, 1912 4. Prospero in Africa: The Tempest as colonialist text and pretext 5. The Order of the Garter, the cult of Elizabeth, and class-gender tension in The Merry Wives of Windsor 6. And wash the Ethiop white: femininity and the monstrous in Othello 7. Renaissance antitheatricality and the politics of gender and rank in Much Ado About Nothing 8. Which is the merchant here? And which the Jew?: subversion and recuperation in The Merchant of Venice 9. Lenten butchery: legitimation crisis in Coriolanus 10. The failure of orthodoxy in Coriolanus 11. Speculations: Macbeth and source 12. Towards a literary theory of ideology: mimesis, representation, authority