Preface Joseph G. Price Introduction Frances A. Shirley
Part1: King John
1. from Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq. Thomas Davies
2. from A View of the English Stage; or, A Series of Dramatic Criticisms William Hazlitt
3. from Shakespeare’s Histories Arthur Colby Sprague
4. King John and the Drama of History Eugene M. Waith
5. from The Dramatic Censor or Critical Companion Francis Gentleman
6. from Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays William Hazlitt
7. from Shakespeare’s History Plays E. M. W. Tillyard
8. from Shakespeare’s Imagery and What it Tells Us Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
9. The Road to Swinstead Abbey: A Study of the Sense and Structure of King John Adrien Bonjour
10. Commodity and Honour in King John James L. Calderwood
11. from The Cease of Majesty M. M. Reese
12. Introduction to The New Penguin Shakespeare: King John Robert L. Smallwood
Part2: Henry VIII
13. from The Boston Evening Transcript, January 9, 1894 Tremont Theatre: Henry VIII
14. from The Advertiser, January 9, 1894 Mr Irving Opens the Week at the Tremont
15. from The Boston Traveller, January 10, 1894 Irving’s King Henry VIII, A Production Notable from Every Standpoint
16. A Stratford Production: Henry VIII Muriel St. Clare Byrne
17. from Dramatic Intention and Theatrical Realization Muriel St. Clare Byrne
18. On the Several Shares of Shakespeare and Fletcher in the Play of Henry VIII James Spedding
19. The Authorship of Henry the Eighth Marjorie H. Nicholson
20. from Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays William Hazlitt
21. from Characteristics of Women, Moral, Political and Historical Anna Jameson
22. The Wheel of Fortune and the Maiden Phoenix of Shakespeare’s King Henry the Eighth Lee Bliss
23. from Two Shakespearian Sequences: Henry VI to Richard II and Pericles to Timon of Athens F. W. Brownlow
24. from Unconformities in Shakespeare’s History Plays Kristian Smidt