Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. List of figures ix
5. List of contributors x
6. Acknowledgements xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. I War and social unrest 17
9. 1 Images of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a history of the present 19
10. 2 ‘Revellers of fate’ 33
11. 3 Satire, mock militarism and anti-provincial prejudice in ‘The Death of the Lord of Kyme’ 61
12. II Militarism, masculinity and gender 79
13. 4 Militarism in Shakespeare’s Henry VI 81
14. 5 Coriolanus, fort-da and the subject-as-object of war 99
15. 6 Shakespeare and the discourse of revenge in Hamlet and Othello 115
16. III Shakespeare and twentieth-century militarism 139
17. 7 Shakespeare and the construction of an ideal soldier during the First World War 141
18. 8 Wartime Hamlet 164
19. 9 Illyrian knights 180
20. References 195
21. Appendix 211
22. Index 216