Table Of ContentA Companion to Shakespeare’s Works
Volume II
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major
authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and posi-
tions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new
fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new
directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field.
1 A Companion to Romanticism Edited by Duncan Wu
2 Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture Edited by Herbert F. Tucker
3 A Companion to Shakespeare Edited by David Scott Kastan
4 A Companion to the Gothic Edited by David Punter
5 A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Dympna Callaghan
6 A Companion to Chaucer Edited by Peter Brown
7 A Companion to English Literature from Milton to Blake Edited by David Womersley
8 A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture Edited by Michael Hattaway
9 A Companion to Milton Edited by Thomas N. Corns
10 A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry Edited by Neil Roberts
11 A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature Edited by Phillip Pulsiano and
Elaine Treharne
12 A Companion to Restoration Drama Edited by Susan J. Owen
13 A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing Edited by Anita Pacheco
14 A Companion to English Renaissance Drama Edited by Arthur Kinney
15 A Companion to Victorian Poetry Edited by Richard Cronin, Alison
Chapman and Anthony Harrison
16 A Companion to the Victorian Novel Edited by Patrick Brantlinger and
William B. Thesing
A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works
17 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume I: Edited by Richard Dutton and
The Tragedies Jean E. Howard
18 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume II: Edited by Richard Dutton and
The Histories Jean E. Howard
19 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume III: Edited by Richard Dutton and
The Comedies Jean E. Howard
20 A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume IV: Edited by Richard Dutton and
The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays Jean E. Howard
A C O M P A N I O N T O
S ’ W
HAKESPEARE S ORKS
V O L U M E I I
T H
HE ISTORIES
EDITED BY RICHARD DUTTON
AND JEAN E. HOWARD
Editorial material and organization copyright © 2003 by
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5018, USA
108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK
550 Swanston Street, Carlton South, Victoria 3053, Australia
Kurfürstendamm 57, 10707 Berlin, Germany
The right of Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard to be identified as the Authors of the
Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs,
and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,
or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or
otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the
prior permission of the publisher.
First published 2003 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.
ISBN 0-631-22633-8 (hardback)
ISBN 1-405-10730-8 (four-volume set)
A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.
Set in 11 on 13 pt Garamond 3
by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd, Hong Kong
Printed and bound in the United Kingdom
by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
For further information on
Blackwell Publishing, visit our website:
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com
Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
1 The Writing of History in Shakespeare’s England 4
Ivo Kamps
2 Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History 26
Richard Helgerson
3 Censorship and the Problems with History in Shakespeare’s England 48
Cyndia Susan Clegg
4 Nation Formation and the English History Plays 70
Patricia A. Cahill
5 The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeare’s English Histories 94
Willy Maley
6 Theories of Kingship in Shakespeare’s England 125
William C. Carroll
7 “To beguile the time, look like the time”: Contemporary Film
Versions of Shakespeare’s Histories 146
Peter J. Smith
8 The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre? 170
Paulina Kewes
9 Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeare’s Histories 194
James Holstun
vi Contents
10 Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and
Homoerotics in Shakespeare’s History Plays 220
Rebecca Ann Bach
11 French Marriages and the Protestant Nation in Shakespeare’s
History Plays 246
Linda Gregerson
12 The First Tetralogy in Performance 263
Ric Knowles
13 The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation 287
Lois Potter
14 1 Henry VI 308
David Bevington
15 Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations in Shakespeare’s
2 Henry VI 325
Thomas Cartelli
16 Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in 3 Henry VI 344
Kathryn Schwarz
17 “The power of hope?” An Early Modern Reader of Richard III 361
James Siemon
18 King John 379
Virginia Mason Vaughan
19 The King’s Melting Body: Richard II 395
Lisa Hopkins
20 1 Henry IV 412
James Knowles
21 Henry IV, Part 2: A Critical History 432
Jonathan Crewe
22 Henry V 451
Andrew Hadfield
Index 468
Notes on Contributors
Rebecca Ann Bach is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham. She is the author of Colonial Transformations: The Cultural Production
of the New Atlantic World, 1580–1640 (2000) and has published articles on early
modern English drama and culture in Renaissance Drama, Textual Practice, SEL, and
other journals and collections. She is currently completing a book entitled Early
Modern England Without Heterosexuality.
David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the
Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1967. His studies
include From “Mankind” to Marlow(1962), TudorDrama and Politics(1968), and Action
is Eloquence: Shakespeare’s Language of Gesture (1985). He is also the editor of Medieval
Drama (1975), the Bantam Shakespeare in 29 paperback volumes (1988), and The
Complete Works of Shakespeare (1992; updated 1997), as well as the Oxford 1 Henry IV
(1987), the Cambridge Antony and Cleopatra (1990), and the Arden 3 Troilus and
Cressida (1998). He is the senior editor of the Revels Student Editions, and is a
senior editor of the Revels Plays and of the forthcoming Cambridge edition of the
works of Ben Jonson. He is also senior editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of
Renaissance Drama.
Patricia A. Cahill is an Assistant Professor of English at Emory University. She is
completing a book on Elizabethan drama to be entitled Tales of Iron Wars: Martial
Bodies and Manly Economies in Early Modern English Culture.
William C. Carroll is Professor of English at Boston University. Among his
recent works are The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy (1985), Fat King, Lean
Beggar: Representations ofPoverty in the Age ofShakespeare(1996), and Macbeth: Texts and
Contexts (1999); he is editor of the Arden edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona
(forthcoming).
viii Notes on Contributors
Thomas Cartelli is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at
Muhlenberg College. He is the author of Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations,
Postcolonial Appropriations (1999) and Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of
Theatrical Experience (1991), as well as numerous essays and reviews. His chapter
in this volume forms part of a work-in-progress entitled Producing Disorder: The
Construction of Misrule in Early Modern England and New England.
Cyndia Susan Cleggis Distinguished Professor of English at Pepperdine University.
She has most recently published Press Censorship in Jacobean England (2001) and Press
Censorship in Elizabethan England (1997). Her articles on Renaissance literature, cen-
sorship, and the history of the book appear in prominent journals and essay collec-
tions. She is currently working on a study of print and parliament.
Jonathan Crewe is Willard Professor of English and Comparative Literature and
Director of the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College. He has pub-
lished extensively on early modern and contemporary writing, and has recently edited
five plays and the narrative poems for the new Pelican Shakespeare.
Linda Gregerson is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She is the
author of The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic
and is currently at work on The Commonwealth of the Word: Nation and Reformation in
Early Modern England.
Andrew Hadfield is currently visiting Professor of English at Columbia University
and is the author of numerous monographs and edited collections. His most recent
works are The English Renaissance(Blackwell, 2000), The Cambridge Companion to Spenser
(2001), and Amazons, Savages and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English,
1550–1630 (2001). He is the general editor of the Arden Critical Companions (with
Paul Hammond) and his Shakespeare and Renaissance Political Culture will appear in
2003.
Richard Helgerson is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa
Barbara. His most recent book is Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early
Modern European Drama and Painting (2000). He is also the author of The Elizabethan
Prodigals (1976), Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton and the Literary System
(1983), and Forms ofNationhood: TheElizabethanWriting ofEngland(1992), which won
the British Council Prize in the Humanities and the Modern Language Association’s
James Russell Lowell Prize.
James Holstun teaches English literature at the State University of New York,
Buffalo. He is the editor of Pamphlet Wars: Prose in the English Revolution (1992) and
the author of ARationalMillennium: Puritan Utopias of Seventeenth-Century England and
Notes on Contributors ix
America (1987) and Ehud’s Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution (2000). He
is at work on a study of Tudor rebellions and reactions to them.
Lisa Hopkins is a Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University and editor of
Early Modern Literary Studies. Her most recent publications are The Female Hero in
English Renaissance Tragedy (2002) and Writing Renaissance Queens: Texts By and About
Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots (2002).
Ivo Kampsis Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi and the
author of Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama (1996). He is the series editor
for the Early Modern Cultural Studies Series, 1500–1700 for Palgrave Press. With
Jyotsna Singh he is co-editor of Travel Knowledge: European “Discoveries” in the Early
Modern Period (2001), and he is one of the editors of the forthcoming Oxford edition
of the complete works of Thomas Middleton. He is currently working with Karen
Raber on a Texts and Contexts edition of Measure for Measure for Bedford Press.
Paulina Kewes is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales,
Aberystwyth. Her publications include Authorship and Appropriation: Writing for
the Stage in England, 1660–1710 (1998) and essays on Shakespeare, Dryden, and
Renaissance, Restoration, and eighteenth-century drama. She has edited a volume of
essays on Plagiarism in Early Modern England (2003), and is now completing a book
on representations of history in Elizabethan and Stuart drama.
James Knowles teaches at the University of Stirling. He has worked extensively on
the Jacobean masque and discovered Jonson’s lost Entertainment at Britain’s Burse
(1609) in 1997. He edited a collection of essays on Shakespeare’s late plays (with
Jennifer Richards) and The Roaring Girl and Other Plays (2001). He is currently
editing the complete entertainments and selected masques for the forthcoming
Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson (2005) and writing a book on early modern
masquing culture.
Ric Knowles is Professor of Drama at the University of Guelph and at the
Graduate Center for the Study of Drama, University of Toronto. He is an editor of
Canadian Theatre Review and editor in chief of Modern Drama, and he has published
extensively on Shakespeare in performance and on contemporary Canadian drama and
theatre. His book The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaningwon the 2001 Ann
Saddlemyer Prize.
Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. His
publications include A Spenser Chronology (1994) and Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism,
Culture and Identity (1997). He has edited, with Andrew Hadfield and Brendan
Bradshaw, Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins ofConflict, 1543–1660(1993),
with Andrew Hadfield, A View of the Present State of Ireland: From the First Published
x Notes on Contributors
Edition(Blackwell, 1997), and with David Baker, a collection of essays entitled British
Identities and English Renaissance Literature (2002).
Lois Potter is Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware. She
has edited The Two Noble Kinsmen for the Arden Shakespeare and recently published a
study of Othello in the Shakespeare in Performance series by Manchester University
Press. She has published on Shakespeare, Milton, the English Civil War, theatre
history, and Robin Hood, and is also a frequent reviewer of plays. Her current project
is a biography of Shakespeare.
Kathryn Schwarz is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is
the author of Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance (2000) and is
working on a new project tentatively entitled “Femininity and Intention in Early
Modern England.”
James Siemon is Professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of
ShakespeareanIconoclasm (1985) and Word Against Word: Shakespearean Utterance (2002).
He has edited the New Mermaid Jew of Malta (1994) and is currently editing
the Arden 3 Richard III.
Peter J. Smith is Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University. His interests are
in the areas of Renaissance literature and drama with special reference to performance
theory and history. His publications include Social Shakespeare: Aspects of Renaissance
Dramaturgy and Contemporary Society (1995) and Hamlet: Theory in Practice (co-edited
with Nigel Wood, 1996). He has edited Marlowe’s Jew of Malta (1994) and Edward
II (1998). Since 1992 he has been associate editor of the international journal of
Renaissance studies, Cahiers Elisabéthains.
Virginia Mason Vaughan is the Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein ’64 Distinguished
Professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is the author of Othello:
A Contextual History and the co-editor of the Arden 3 The Tempest.
