Table of Contents
Introduction David Armitage, Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice
Part I. Contexts: 1. Shakespeare's properties David Armitage
2. The active and contemplative lives in Shakespeare's plays Cathy Curtis
3. Shakespeare and the ethics of authority Stephen Greenblatt
4. Shakespeare and the politics of superstition Susan James
Part II. The Court: 5. Counsel, succession and the politics of Shakespeare's Sonnets Cathy Shrank
6. Educating Hamlet and Prince Hal Aysha Pollnitz
7. The corruption of Hamlet Andrew Fitzmaurice
8. Unfolding 'the properties of government': the case of Measure for Measure and the history of political thought Conal Condren
9. Shakespeare and the politics of co-authorship: Henry VIII Jennifer Richards
Part III. The Commonwealth: 10. Putting the city into Shakespeare's city comedy Phil Withington
11. Talking to the animals: persuasion, counsel and their discontents in Julius Caesar David Colclough
12. Political rhetoric and citizenship in Coriolanus Markku Peltonen
13. Shakespeare and the best state of a commonwealth Eric Nelson
Afterword: Shakespeare and humanist culture Quentin Skinner.
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