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Acknowledgements List of illustrations List of contributors Foreword: histories and nations Dennis Kennedy Introduction: Shakespeare's history plays in Britain and abroad Ton Hoenselaars Part I: Introduction: alienating histories Ton Hoenselaars 1. Ireland as foreign and familiar in Shakespeare's histories Andrew Murphy 2. Welshness in Shakespeare's English histories Lisa Hopkins 3. A French history of Henry V Jean-Michel Deprats 4. Shakespeare's history plays in Japan Daniel Gallimore Part II: Introduction: the appropriated past Ton Hoenselaars 5. Rent-a-past: Italian responses to Shakespeare's histories (1800-1950) Mariangela Tempera 6. Brecht and the rediscovery of Henry VI James N. Loehlin 7. Shakespeare's histories in cycles Edward Burns 8. Shakespeare's history plays in Bulgaria Alexander Shurbanov and Boika Sokolova Part III: Introduction: stage adaptations of the histories Ton Hoenselaars 9. Shakespeare's English histories at the Vienna Burgtheater Manfred Draudt 10. The Spanish premiere of Richard II Keith Gregor 11. Shakespearean history at the Avignon Festival Dominique Goy-Blanquet 12. Two Flemings at war with Shakespeare Ton Hoenselaars Select bibliography Index.

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