Monarchical Problems in the English History Plays of Shakespeare : A Critical Study

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Elizabethan England. 3. The common background of civil strife and foreign quarrels. 4. Disputed succession. 5. Detheronement and usurpation. 6. Regicide. 7. Unpopularity of the tyrannical ruler: Richard III. 8. Court intrigue and disorder: Henry VIII. 9. The summing up. Bibliography.