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 Bibliography