Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. The Stuart Brothers and English Theater 1
4. “You would pluck out the heart of my mystery”: The Audience in Hamlet 13
5. Spenser’s Reformation Epic: Gloriana and the Unadulterated Arthur 25
6. Nationhood as Illusion in The Spanish Tragedy 37
7. The Wife of Bath and All’s Well That Ends Well 51
8. A Necessary Evil: The Inverted Hagiography of Shakespeare’s Richard III 69
9. Deny, Omit, and Disavow: Becoming Ben Jonson 81
10. “What strange parallax or optic skill”: Paradise Regained and the Masque 93
11. A Protestant Pilgrim in Rome, Venice, and English Parliament: Sir John Wray 105
12. Book Reviews
13. James Shapiro, The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Cloth, 367 pages. 131
14. James Shapiro, Shakespeare and the Jews: 20th Anniversary Edition. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2016. Paperback, 317 pages. 134