Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-296) and index.
Contents
"Chorus to this history" -- Fashioning obedience: King John's "True inheritors" -- Enclosing contention: 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI -- "The coming on of time": Richard III -- "If I turn mine eyes upon myself": Richard II -- "Let the end try the man": 1 and 2 Henry IV -- "A full and natural close, like music": Henry V -- Uncommon women and others: Henry VIII's "Maiden phoenix" -- "No epilogue, I pray you."