Theaters of war: Caesar and the Vandals -- - Cultural materialism, Othello, and the politics of plausibility -- - When is a character not a character? Desdemona, Olivia, Lady Macbeth, and subjectivity -- - Power and ideology: an outline theory of Sidney's Arcadia -- - Macbeth: history, ideology, and intellectuals -- - History and ideology, masculinity and miscegenation: the instance of Henry V written with Jonathan Dollimore -- - Protestantism: questions of subjectivity and control -- - Sidney's Defence and the collective-farm chairman: Puritan humanism and the cultural apparatus -- - Tragedy, God, and writing: Hamlet, Faustus, Tamburlaine -- - A brief photo-essay on imperalism -- - Cultural imperialism and the primal scene of U.S. man