Part 1 Recovering history: introduction - Shakespeare, cultural materialism and the new historicism, Jonathan Dollimore; invisible bullets - renaissance authority and its subversion, Henry IV and Henry V, Stephen Greenblatt; This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine - The Tempest and the discourse of colonialism, Paul Brown; transgression and surveillance in Measure for Measure, Jonathan Dollimore; the patriarchal bard - feminist criticism and Shakespeare - King Lear and Measure for Measure, Kathleen McLuskie; strategies of state and political plays - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VIII, Leonard Tennenhouse. Part 2 Reproductions, interventions: introduction - reproductions, interventions, Alan Sinfield; give an account of Shakespeare and education, showing why you think they are effective and what you have appreciated about them. support your comments with precise references, Alan Sinfield; Royal Shakespeare - theatre and the making of ideology, Alan Sinfield; radical potentiality and institutional closure - Shakespeare in film and television, Graham Holderness; how Brecht read Shakespeare, Margot Heinemann; afterword, Raymond Williams.
