Shakespeare’S Histories and Counter-Histories

Dermot Cavanagh is Lecturer in English at the University of Edinburgh. Stuart Hampton-Reeves is Principal Lecturer in English and Drama at the University of Central Lancashire Stephen Longstaffe is Lecturer in English and Drama at St. Martin’s College, Lancaster

• 1. Staring at Clio: Artists, histories and counter-histories - Stuart Hampton-ReevesMEMORY AND MOURNING2. Richard II and the performance of grief - John J. Joughin3. History, mourning and memory in Henry V - Dermot Cavanagh4. There is a history in all men’s lives: Reinventing History in 2 Henry IV - Alison Thorne5. Good sometime queen: Richard II and the poetics of queenship - Alison FindlayCOUNTER-HISTORIES6. Strange truths: The Stanleys of Derby on the english renaissance stage - Lisa Hopkins7. A sea of troubles: The thought of the outside in Shakespeare’s histories - Richard Wilson8. The Commons will revolt: Woodstock after the peasants' revolt - Stephen Longstaffe9. National history to foreign calamity: A Mirror for Magistrates and early English tragedy - Jessica WinstonIDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE10. War-like women: ‘Reproofe to these degenerate, effeminate dayes’ - Carol Banks11. Of tygers’ hearts and players’ hides - Carol Rutter12. Mapping Shakespeare’s Britain - Peter HollandAfterword - Mots d’escalier: Clio, Eurydice, Orpheus - Graham Holderness