Shakespeare's histories and counter-histories / edited by Dermot Cavanagh, Stuart Hampton-Reeves and Stephen Longstaffe.

General note: Includes index. Formatted contents note: Richard II and the performance of grief / John J. Joughin - History, mourning and memory in Henry V / Dermot Cavanagh - There is history in all men's lives : reinventing history in 2 Henry IV / Alison Thorne - Good sometimes Queen : Richard II, Mary Stuart and the poetic of queenship / Alison Findlay - Strange truths : the Stanleys of Derby on the English Renaissance stage / Lisa Hopkins - A sea of troubles : the thought of the outside in Shakespeare's histories / Richard Wilson - The commons will revolt : Woodstock after the Peasant's Revolt / Stephen Longstaffe - National history to foreign calamity : A mirror for magistrates and early English tragedy / Jessica Winton - Warlike women : "reproofe to these degenerate effeminate dayes"? / Carol Banks - Of tygers' hearts and players' hides / Carol Chillington Rutter - Mapping Shakespeare's Britain / Peter Holland - Afterword: Mots d'escalier : Clio, Eurydice, Orpheus / Graham Holderness.