Professor Richard Wilson is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University, London. Richard Dutton is Humanities Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Faculty of English at Ohio State University, USA.
Introduction: Historicising New Historicism
Richard Wilson; Chapter 1 The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies
Jean E. Howard; Chapter 2 Literature
History
Polities
Catherine Belsey; Chapter 3 Shakespeare
Cultural Materialism and the New Historicism
Jonathan Dollimore; Chapter 4 Marlowe and the Will to Absolute Play
Stephen Greenblatt; Chapter 5 Invisible Bullets: Renaissance Authority and its Subversion
Henry IV and Henry V
Stephen Greenblatt; Chapter 6 A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Shaping Fantasies of Elizabethan Culture: Gender
Power
Form
Louis Montrose; Chapter 7 Alice Arden's Crime
Catherine Belsey; Chapter 8 Shakespeare's Roman Carnival
Richard Wilson; Chapter 9 Hamlet's Unfulfilled Interiority
Francis Barker; Chapter 10 Macbeth: History
Ideology and Intellectuals
Alan Sinfield; Chapter 11 The White Devil: Transgression Without Virtue
Jonathan Dollimore; Chapter 12 Family Rites: City Comedy and the Strategies of Patriarchalism
Leonard Tennenhouse; Chapter 13 Smithfield and Authorship: Ben Jonson
Peter Stallybrass
Allon White; Postscript
Richard Dutton;
