Taking a wide-ranging intertextual approach, Richard Hillman sets Early Modern English play-texts against political and cultural discourses concerning France, as these informed contemporary English consciousness. The English works explored go beyond those directly representing French affairs; the French examples include dramatic treatments of Joan of Arc and of the assassination of the Guises by Henri III. In addition to its fresh readings of some familiar plays, the book proposes, as unique to the English-French dynamic, a theoretical model relating history, discourse and subjectivity.

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RICHARD HILLMAN is Professeur, Université François-Rabelais Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, and and editor of the journal Renaissance and Reformation. His previous books include Shakespearean Subversions, Intertextuality and Romance in Renaissance Drama, William Shakespeare: The Problem Plays, Self-Speaking in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama and translations from Marie de Gournay (with Colette Quesnel).

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Acknowledgements Textual Note Introduction: The Vasty (Discursive) Fields of France The Unfortunate Traveller in (and out of) France Shakespeare's Arthurian Misfortunes Marlovian Monarchs and Various Guises Turning and Turning Again: Shakespeare's First Tetralogy 'Of tendyr hertys been Englysche men ' Notes Works Cited Index