Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index.
Contents
Introduction: historical fiction old and new -- Of narrators; or How the teller tells the tale -- Historical novelists at work: George Garrett and Anthony Burgess -- Barry Unsworth's Morality play and the origins of English secular drama -- Fictional Queen Elizabeths and women-centered historical fiction -- Rewriting Shakespeare: the Henriad with and without Falstaff -- Teaching Shakespeare's England through historical fiction.