Andrew Hiscock is Professor of English at Bangor University, Wales, and a Fellow of the English Association. He is English editor for the academic journal MLR, series editor for The Yearbook of English Studies and series co-editor for the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. He has published widely on early modern writing and his other monographs include Authority and Desire: Crises of Interpretation in Shakespeare and Racine and Reading Memory in Early Modern Literature. He co-edited Dangerous Diversity: The Changing Faces of Wales from the Renaissance to the Present Day with Katie Gramich which was published with University of Wales Press in 1998. Dr Katie Gramich is Professor in English Literature at Cardiff University.

• Part 1 Invisible women: place, race and gender in the poetry of Gillian Clarke, M. Wynn Thomas; the madwoman in the Harness Loft - women and madness in the literature of Wales, Katie Gramich. Part 2 Perception of Wales: vile Saxons and ancient Britons - Wordsworth, the ambivalent Welsh tourist, Paul Wright; for the honour of that nation - Ben Johnson and the unmasking of Wales, Andrew Hiscock. Part 3 History and customs of Wales: myth making in 19th-century Wales, Conway Davies; the funeral made the attraction - the social and economic functions of funerals in 19th-century Wales, Catrin Stephens. Part 4 Comparative perspectives: lean parishes - Patrick Kavanagh's "The Great Hunger" and R.S. Thomas's "The Minister", Patrick Crotty; keeping it in the family - "Change" by J.O. Francis, "The Keep" by Gwyn Thomas and "House of America" by Edward Thomas, Martin Rhys. Part 4 Education in Wales: accessing the word - a study of language acquisition in Wales, Pamela Meriott.