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William Cecil Lord Burghley and the management of Elizabeth's England / Norman Jones -- The Earl of Essex / Paul E.J. Hammer -- Robert Cecil and the transition from Elizabeth to James I / Pauline Croft -- James I and the consolidation of British monarchy? / R. Malcolm Smuts -- War, soldiers and high politics under Elizabeth I / D.J.B. Trim -- Shakespeare, the Irish and military culture / Rory Rapple -- Catholicism and tyranny in Shakespeare's Warwickshire / Glyn Parry -- Ancient liberties, royal honour and the politics of commonweal in English forests, 1558-1625 / Dan Beaver -- Poets, patronage and the Prince's court / Timothy Wilks -- The theatre and the 'post-reformation public sphere' / Peter Lake -- Rhetorical training and the Elizabethan grammar school / Peter Mack -- English vernacular historical writing and Holinshed's Chronicles / Daniel Woolf and Jane Wong Yeang Chui -- European historiography in English political culture / Nicholas Popper -- Roman history, Essex and late Elizabethan political culture / Paulina Kewes -- Other republicanisms / Debora Shuger -- The Gordian knot of policy: statecraft and the prudent prince / Alexandra Gajda -- Seneca and English political culture / Curtis Perry -- David Hume, Richard Verstegan and the battle for Britain / Arthur Williamson -- The politics of race in England, Scotland and Ireland / Brendan Kane and R. Malcolm Smuts -- English Catholics and the continent / Katy Gibbons -- The Bible in English culture: the age of Shakespeare / Naomi Tadmor -- Religious nonconformity and the quality of mercy: the Merchant of Venice in Reformation context / Ethan H. Shagan -- Protestantism and the devil / Tom Webster -- The affective life in Shakespearean England / Linda Pollock -- Chivalry and the English gentleman / Richard Cust -- Elizabethan verse libel / Alan Bryson -- Gender, writing technologies and early modern epistolary communications / James Daybell -- The shamings of Falstaff / Brian Weiser -- Cuckold's haven: gender inversion in popular culture / Susan D. Amussen -- Murder's crimson badge': homicide in the age of Shakespeare / K.J. Kesselring -- Thinking with poison / Alastair Bellany -- Criminal London: fear and danger in Shakespeare's city / Paul Griffiths -- Families and households in early modern London / Vanessa Harding -- Theatre, church and neighbourhood in early modern Blackfriars / Christopher Highley -- The cultural geography of St Paul's precinct / Roze Hentschell -- Art and architecture in provincial England / Robert Tittler -- Garden design and experience in Shakespeare's England / Luke Morgan -- Art collecting and patronage in Shakespeare's England / Elizabeth Goldring -- Graphic satire and the printed image in Shakespeare's England / Helen Pierce -- Music and the stage in the time of Shakespeare / Ross W. Duffin. |
