Shakespeare’s Casus Belly or, Cormorant War, and the Wasting of Men on Shakespeare’s Stage; or, Eating Wars and Digesting Plays; or, The Art of Chucking Men Into Pits; or, Shakespeare, Tacitism, and Why Plato Don’t Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Preface xi
6. I Ideologies
7. Acts of Vengeance, Acts of Love: Crusading Violence in the Twelfth Century 3
8. Peril, Flight and the Sad Man: Medieval Theories of the Body in Battle 21
9. ‘Is this War?’: British Fictions of Emergency in the Hot Cold War 41
10. II Interpretations
11. Crossing the Rubicon: History, Authority and Civil War in Twelfth-Century England 61
12. ‘The Reader myghte lamente’: The sieges of Calais (1346) and Rouen (1418) in chronicle, poem and play 84
13. Shakespeare’s Casus Belly or, Cormorant War, and the Wasting of Men on Shakespeare’s Stage; or, Eating Wars and Digesting Plays; or, The Art of Chucking Men Into Pits; or, Shakespeare, Tacitism, and Why Plato Don’t Matter 107
14. Unnavigable Kinship in a Time of Conflict: Loyalist Calligraphies, Sovereign Power and the ‘Muckle Honor’ of Elizabeth Murray Inman 139
15. Proclaiming the War News: Richard Caton Woodville and Herman Melville 163
16. III Aftermaths
17. A Feeling for Numbers: Representing the Scale of the War Dead 185
18. The Guilt of the Noncombatant and W. H. Auden’s ‘Journal of an Airman’ 205
19. Does Tolstoy’s War and Peace Make Modern War Literature Redundant? 228
20. Index 249