Introduction Shakespeare, cultural materialism and the new historicism / Jonathan Dollimore -- Invisible bullets : Renaissance authority and its subversion, Henry IV & Henry V / Stephen Greenblatt -- 'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine' : The Tempest and the discourse of colonialism / Paul Brown -- Transgression and surveillance in Measure for measure / Jonathan Dollimore -- Patriarchal bard : feminist criticism and Shakespeare : King Lear & Measure for measure / Kathleen McLuskie -- Strategies of state and political plays : A midsummer night's dreme, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VIII / Leonard Tennenhouse -- Royal Shakespeare : theatre and the making ideology / Alan Sinifield -- Radical potentiality and institutional closure : Shakespeare in film and television / Graham Holderness -- How Brecht read Shakespeare / Margot Heineman
