The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare

R. Malcolm Smuts, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has had a lifelong interest in interdisciplinary scholarship on early modern Britain and Europe. His publications include Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in England (1987); Culture and Power in England 1585-1685 (1998) and several edited collections and articles on aspects of political and cultural history.

1: R. Malcolm Smuts: Introduction: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Frontiers
Part I: Politics
2: Norman Jones: William Cecil Lord Burghley and the Management of Elizabeth's England
3: Paul E. J. Hammer: The Earl of Essex
4: Pauline Croft: Robert Cecil and the Transition from Elizabeth to James I
5: R. Malcolm Smuts: James I and the Consolidation of British Monarchy?
6: D. J. B. Trim: War, Soldiers and High Politics under Elizabeth I
7: Rory Rapple: Shakespeare, the Irish, and Military Culture
8: Glyn Parry: Catholicism and Tyranny in Shakespeare's Warwickshire
9: Dan Beaver: Ancient Liberties, Royal Honour, and the Politics of Commonweal in English Forests, 1558-1625
Part II: Intellectual Culture and Political Thought and Imagination
10: Timothy Wilks: Poets, Patronage and the Prince's Court
11: Peter Lake: The Theatre and the 'Post-Reformation Public Sphere'
12: Peter Mack: Rhetorical Training and the Elizabethan Grammar School
13: Daniel Woolf and Jane Wong Yeang Chui: English Vernacular Historical Writing and Holinshed's Chronicles
14: Nicholas Popper: European Historiography in English Political Culture
15: Paulina Kewes: Roman History, Essex, and Late Elizabethan Political Culture
16: Debora Shuger: Other Republicanisms
17: Alexandra Gajda: The Gordian Knot of Policy: Statecraft and the Prudent Prince
18: Curtis Perry: Seneca and English Political Culture
19: Arthur Williamson: David Hume, Richard Verstegan, and the Battle for Britain
20: Brendan Kane and R. Malcolm Smuts: The Politics of Race in England, Scotland, and Ireland
Part III: Aspects of Religious Culture
21: Katy Gibbons: English Catholics and the Continent
22: Naomi Tadmor: The Bible in English Culture: The Age of Shakespeare
23: Ethan H. Shagan: Religious Nonconformity and the Quality of Mercy: The Merchant of Venice in Reformation Context
24: Tom Webster: Protestantism and the Devil
Part IV: Social Beliefs and Practices
25: Linda Pollock: The Affective Life in Shakespearean England
26: Richard Cust: Chivalry and the English Gentleman
27: Alan Bryson: Elizabethan Verse Libel
28: James Daybell: Gender, Writing Technologies, and Early Modern Epistolary Communications
29: Brian Weiser: The Shamings of Falstaff
30: Susan D. Amussen: Cuckold's Haven: Gender Inversion in Popular Culture
31: K. J. Kesselring: 'Murder's Crimson Badge': Homicide in the Age of Shakespeare
32: Alastair Bellany: Thinking with Poison
33: Paul Griffiths: Criminal London: Fear and Danger in Shakespeare's City
34: Vanessa Harding: Families and Households in Early Modern London, c.1550-1640
35: Christopher Highley: Theatre, Church, and Neighbourhood in Early Modern Blackfriars
36: Roze Hentschell: The Cultural Geography of St Paul's Precinct
Part V: Architecture, Visual Culture, and Music
37: Robert Tittler: Art and Architecture in Provincial England
38: Luke Morgan: Garden Design and Experience in Shakespeare's England
39: Elizabeth Goldring: Art Collecting and Patronage in Shakespeare's England
40: Helen Pierce: Graphic Satire and the Printed Image in Shakespeare's London
41: Ross w. Duffin: Music and the Stage in the Time of Shakespeare
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