The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare's history plays

Part I. Contexts: 1. The Shakespearean history play / Michael Hattaway

Shakespeare and the early modern history play / A. J. Hoenselaars

3. Pageants, masques, and history / David M. Bergeron

4. Elizabethan historiography and Shakespeare's sources / Dominique Goy-Blanquet

5. Women's roles in the Elizabethan history plays / Phyllis Rackin

Part II. The Plays:

6. Plantagenets, Yorkists, Lancastrians, and Tudors: Edward III, 1-3 Henry VI, Richard III / Janis Lull

7. Historical legacy and fiction: the poetical reinvention of King Richard III / Marie-Helene Besnault and Michel Bitot

8. King John: changing perspectives / A. J. Piesse

9. Richard II: Shakespeare and the languages of the stage / Robyn Bolam

10. Henry IV Parts one and two / James C. Bulman

11. King Henry V: 'The quick forge and working house of thought' / Pamela Mason

12. Shakespeare's ancient Rome: difference and identity / Robert S. Miola

13. Shakespeare's other historical plays / R. A. Foakes

14. Theatrical afterlives / Stuart Hampton-Reeves

Part III. Reference Material: Recurrent characters Family Trees: 1. The Early Plantagenets

2. The House of Lancaster

3. The House of York.