Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction and acknowledgements ix
4. PART I: Contexts and structures
5. PART II: Past into present and future: 2 and 3 Henry VI and the politics of lost legitimacy
6. CHAPTER 1: Losing legitimacy: monarchical weakness and the descent into disorder 69
7. CHAPTER 2: Disorder dissected (i): the inversion of the gender order 82
8. CHAPTER 3: Disorder dissected (ii): the inversion of the social order 96
9. CHAPTER 4: Hereditary ‘right’ and political legitimacy anatomised 108
10. PART III: Happy endings and alternative outcomes: 1 Henry VI and Richard III
11. CHAPTER 5: How not to go there: 1 Henry VI as prequel and alternative ending 125
12. CHAPTER 6: Richard III: political ends, providential means 149
13. CHAPTER 7: Going Roman: Richard III and Titus Andronicus compared 171
14. PART IV: How (not) to depose a tyrant: King John and Richard II
15. CHAPTER 8: The Elizabethan resonances of the reign of King John 181
16. CHAPTER 9: The first time as polemic, the second time as play: Shakespeare’s King John and The troublesome reign 195
17. CHAPTER 10: Richard II, or the rights and wrongs of resistance 236
18. CHAPTER 11: Shakespeare and Parsons – again 270
19. Part V: The Essexian circle squared, or a user’s guide to the politics of popularity, honour and legitimacy
20. CHAPTER 12: The loss of legitimacy and the politics of commodity dissected 291
21. CHAPTER 13: Learning to be a bastard: Hal’s second (plebeian) nature 320
22. CHAPTER 14: Festive Falstaff: of popularity, puritans and princes 331
23. CHAPTER 15: Henry V and the fruits of legitimacy 349
24. PART VI :Using plays to read plays: the court politics of the dramatic riposte
25. CHAPTER 16: Contemporary readings: Oldcastle/Falstaff, Cobham/Essex 401
26. CHAPTER 17: Oldcastle redivivus 417
27. PART VII: Julius Caesar: the dangers of playing pagan and republican politics in a Christian monarchy
28. CHAPTER 18: The state we’re in 437
29. CHAPTER 19: The politics of honour (in a popular state) 442
30. CHAPTER 20: Performing honour and the politics of popularity (in a popular state) 463
31. CHAPTER 21: The politics of popularity and faction (in a popular state) 476
32. CHAPTER 22: The politics of prodigy, prophecy and providence (in a pagan state) 492
33. CHAPTER 23: Between Henry V and Hamlet 501
34. PART VIII: Disillusion: Christian and pagan style
35. CHAPTER 24: Hamlet 511
36. CHAPTER 25: The morning after the night before: Troilus and Cressida as retrospect 534
37. Conclusion 568
38. Notes 604
39. Index 650