Shakespeare’s History Plays
Preface Part I: The Background The Cosmic Background Introductory The Context of History The Elizabethan World Order Shakespeare’s Access to the Doctrine The Historical Background Machiavelli The Medieval Norm Froissart and Tito Livio Medieval Anticipations The Tudor Myth Polydore Vergil Sir Thomas More Hall Holinshed The Uses of History Elizabethan Notions of recent English History …