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A scum of Britons?: Richard III and the Celtic reconquest / Philip Schwyzer -- The quality of mercenaries: contextualizing Shakespeare's scots in Henry IV and Henry V / Vimala C. Pasupathi -- War, the boar and Spenserian politics in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis / Thomas Herron -- The howling of Irish wolves: As You Like It and the Celtic Essex circle / Chris Butler -- Shakespeare's Elizabethan England/jacobean Britain / Christopher Ivic -- Othello and the Irish question / Willy Maley -- Why should I play the Roman fool, and die/on mine own sword?: the Senecan tradition in Macbeth / Andrew J. Power -- To th' crack of doom: sovereign imagination as anamorphosis in Shakespeare's How of kings / Margaret Downs-Gamble -- Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns / Stewart Mottram -- I myself would for Caernarfonshire: the old lady inKing Henry VIII / Rory Loughnane -- The nation's poet: Milton's Shakespeare and the wars of the three kingdoms / Nicholas McDowell -- Shakespeare and transnational heritage in Dowden and Yeats / Rob Doggett -- Cymbeline and Cymbeline refinished: G.B. Shaw and the unresolved empire / Robin E. Bates -- Beyond MacMorris: Shakespeare, Ireland and critical contexts / Stephen O'Neill. |
