Introduction 1. Topical ideology: Witches, Amazons and Shakespeare's Joan of Arc Gabriele Bernhard Jackson 2. A mingled yarn: Shakespeare and the cloth workers Richard Wilson 3. Descanting on deformity: Richard III and the shape of history Marjorie Garber 4. Stages of history: Ideological conflict, Alternative plots Phyllis Rackin 5. Engendering a nation: Richard II Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin 6. Prince Hal's Falstaff: Positioning psychoanalysis and the female reproductive body Valerie Traub 7.

Carnival and history: Henry IV Graham Holderness 8. The future of history: 1 and 2 Henry IV Kiernan Ryan 9. A tale of two branaghs: Henry V, Ideology and the Mekong Agincourt Chris Fitter 10. Back by popular demand: The two versions of Henry V Annabel Patterson 11. 'Wildehirissheman': Colonialist representations in Shakespeare's Henry V David J. Baker 12: History and ideology, masculinity and miscegenation: The instance of Henry V Alan Sinfield and Jonathan Dollimore ; 10. Back by popular demand: The two versions of Henry V Annabel Patterson 11. 'Wildehirissheman': Colonialist representations in Shakespeare's Henry V David J.

Baker 12: History and ideology, masculinity and miscegenation: The instance of Henry V Alan Sinfield and Jonathan Dollimore.