The politics of modernism, David Forgacs; safest in storms - George Wither in the 1650s, David Norbrook; "authority" in Calvinism - the spirit betwixt scripture andpolity, Robert Weimann; the ass with double vision - politicising an Ancient Greek novel, Edith Hall; Unity Theatre, Colin Chambers; communities - British Theatre in the 1980s, Peter Holland; closet Keynesians - dissidence and theatre, Alan Sinfield; liberty outside the law, Christopher Hill; love of England - patriotism and the making of Victorianism, John Lucas; clash, Maroula Joannou; Massinger, mourner of an unborn past, Victor Kiernan; Marvel, Milton and Trajan's column, Elsie Duncan-Jones; sexuality and intertextuality in Middleton's Hengist, King of Kent, Inga-Stine Ewbank; the end of socialist realism, Andy Croft.