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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 1 Dialogues with the dead: history, performance, and Elizabethan theater; History, historical culture, historical consciousness; Petrarch and the Elizabethans; Ideas of history; Reformation, rupture, and the stage; "Lively Bodies": Perspectives on performance, now and then; The Queen's Men: The company and their repertory; Shakespeare and the concept of history; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2 Theatrical time and historical time: the temporality of the past in The Famous Victories of Henry V
Historical time and theatrical time in sixteenth-century EnglandClowning with history in Shakespeare and the Queen's Men; Much "Ado" about history in The Famous Victories of Henry V; The world of the living and the world of the dead; Notes; Chapter 3 Figuring history: Truth, Poetry, and Report in The True Tragedy of Richard III; Induction to history; Forms of address, forms of history; The figure of Report; Two truths; Coda: Repetition and textual history; Notes; Chapter 4 "Unkind division": the double absence of performing history in 1 Henry VI; Succeeding Henry
Factionalism and the rhetoric of genealogy"Dead march"; Transfusing history; Notes; Chapter 5 Richard III and Theatrum Historiae; Retailing, registering, performing; Citing up the (theatrical) past; Richard, Richmond, and revenants; Providence and playing; Theatrum historiae; Notes; Chapter 6 Henry V and the extra-theatrical historical imagination; "Like" theater, "like" history: The past as fantasy; Imagining the past from the "scaffold" to "Blackheath" to the "tomb"; Henry's hobbyhorse: Chantries and the tomb of Richard II; Acceptance take; Notes
Conclusion: traces of Henry/traces of historyBibliography; Index
