• FrontMatter,
• CONTENTS,
• PREFACE. POWER AND THEORY,
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,
• Chapter 1. Centralized Power and Christian Political Realism: Fifth Century and Sixteenth,
• Chapter 2. Libido Dominandi and Potentia Humilitatis: The Medieval Dramaturgy of Power,
• Chapter 3. Tudor Power and the New Fashion,
• Chapter 4. Deconstructive Comedy,
• Chapter 5. Inventing Secular History: The Henry VI Plays,
• Chapter 6. The Elizabethan Hal,
• Chapter 7. Power and Archaic Dramaturgy in All's Well That Ends Well,
• Chapter 8. Style, Goodness, and Power in Measure for Measure,
• Chapter 9. Tragedy: Noble Weakness,
• Chapter 10. Ruling Taste and the Late Plays,
• Afterword: Power and Art,
• ABBREVIATIONS,
• NOTES,
• WORKS FREQUENTLY CITED,
• INDEX,

Ranging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama most clearly illuminates Shakespeare's treatment of political power and social privilege.
Originally published in 1989.
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