Introduction – Bronwen Price and Hilary Hinds

Part 1 War and social unrest
1 Images of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a history of the present – Simon Barker
2 ‘Revellers of fate’: Thomas Salusbury’s ‘An Antimasque of Gypsies’ performed at Chirk Castle on 30 December, 1641 – Rebecca Bailey
3 Satire, mock militarism and anti-provincial prejudice in ‘The Death of the Lord of Kyme’ – Christopher Marlow

Part 2 Militarism, masculinity and gender
4 Militarism in Shakespeare’s Henry VI – Not ‘keeping It dark’ – Franziska Quabeck
5 Coriolanus, Fort-Da and the subject-as-object of war – Heather Hirschfeld
6 Shakespeare and the discourse of revenge in Hamlet and Othello – John Drakakis

Part 3 Shakespeare and twentieth-century militarism
7 Shakespeare and the construction of an ideal soldier during the First World War – Monika Smialkowska
8 Wartime Hamlet – Irena Makaryk
9 Illyrian knights: Shakespeare, comedy, war – Simon Barker

References
Appendix: Simon Barker’s publications
Index