A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume 2: The Histories

The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare’s histories.

• Contains original essays on every history play from Henry VI to Henry V.
  
• Includes fourteen additional articles on such topics as censorship in Shakespeare's histories, the relation of Shakespeare's plays to other dramatic histories of the period, Shakespeare's histories on film, the homoerotics of Shakespeare's history plays, and nation formation in Shakespeare's histories.
  
• Brings together new essays from a diverse, international group of scholars.
  
• Complements David Scott Kastan's A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context.
  
• Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies.

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–3):
Chapter 2 The Writing of History in Shakespeare's England (pages 4–25): Ivo Kamps
Chapter 3 Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History (pages 26–47): Richard Helgerson
Chapter 4 Censorship and the Problems With History in Shakespeare's England (pages 48–69): Cyndia Susan Clegg
Chapter 5 Nation Formation and the English History Plays (pages 70–93): Patricia A. Cahill
Chapter 6 The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeare's English Histories (pages 94–124): Willy Maley
Chapter 7 Theories of Kingship in Shakespeare's England (pages 125–145): William C. Carroll
Chapter 8 “To Beguile the Time, Look Like the Time”: Contemporary Film Versions of Shakespeare's Histories (pages 146–169): Peter J. Smith
Chapter 9 The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre? (pages 170–193): Paulina Kewes
Chapter 10 Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeare's Histories (pages 194–219): James Holstun
Chapter 11 Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Homoerotics in Shakespeare's History Plays (pages 220–245): Rebecca Ann Bach
Chapter 12 French Marriages and the Protestant Nation in Shakespeare's History Plays (pages 246–262): Linda Gregerson
Chapter 13 The First Tetralogy in Performance (pages 263–286): Ric Knowles
Chapter 14 The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation (pages 287–307): Lois Potter
Chapter 15 1 Henry VI (pages 308–324): David Bevington
Chapter 16 Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI (pages 325–343): Thomas Cartelli
Chapter 17 Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in 3 Henry VI (pages 344–360): Kathryn Schwarz
Chapter 18 “The Power of Hope?” An Early Modern Reader of Richard III (pages 361–378): James Siemon
Chapter 19 King John (pages 379–394): Virginia Mason Vaughan
Chapter 20 The King's Melting Body: Richard II (pages 395–411): Lisa Hopkins
Chapter 21 1 Henry IV (pages 412–431): James Knowles
Chapter 22 Henry IV, Part 2 (pages 432–450): Jonathan Crewe
Chapter 23 Henry V (pages 451–467): Andrew Hadfield