Neema Parvini is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Surrey. His previous books include Shakespeare’s History Plays (EUP, 2012), Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory (Bloomsbury, 2012), Shakespeare and Cognition (Palgrave, 2015) and Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory (Bloomsbury, 2017).

• Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note on Texts; 1. Introduction; 2. New Historicism; James I and the Politics of Literature; 'Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne'; 3. Cultural Materialism; 'History and Ideology, Masculinity and Miscegenation: The Instance of Henry V'; Marginal Politics?; 4. An Argument Against Anti-Humanism; Nature and Nurture; Three Types of Determinism; Freedom versus Determinism and Human Agency; 5. Solutions; 6. Shakespeare's Historical and Political Thought in Context; Sixteenth-century Historiography; Three Strains of Historiography; Shakespeare's Humanist Historiography; 7. Personal Action and Agency in Henry VI;Personal Politics: 2 Henry VI; Class Politics: Cade's Rebellion; Power Politics: 3 Henry VI; 8 Ideology in Richard II and Henry IV; Cultural Historicism and the Second Tetralogy; Richard II: 'Such is the breath of kings' (1.3.208); Henry IV: 'God save the King! Will no man say "Amen"?'; Falstaff; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Neema Parvini is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Surrey. His previous books include Shakespeare’s History Plays (EUP, 2012), Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory (Bloomsbury, 2012), Shakespeare and Cognition (Palgrave, 2015) and Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory (Bloomsbury, 2017).

• Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note on Texts; 1. Introduction; 2. New Historicism; James I and the Politics of Literature; 'Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne'; 3. Cultural Materialism; 'History and Ideology, Masculinity and Miscegenation: The Instance of Henry V'; Marginal Politics?; 4. An Argument Against Anti-Humanism; Nature and Nurture; Three Types of Determinism; Freedom versus Determinism and Human Agency; 5. Solutions; 6. Shakespeare's Historical and Political Thought in Context; Sixteenth-century Historiography; Three Strains of Historiography; Shakespeare's Humanist Historiography; 7. Personal Action and Agency in Henry VI;Personal Politics: 2 Henry VI; Class Politics: Cade's Rebellion; Power Politics: 3 Henry VI; 8 Ideology in Richard II and Henry IV; Cultural Historicism and the Second Tetralogy; Richard II: 'Such is the breath of kings' (1.3.208); Henry IV: 'God save the King! Will no man say "Amen"?'; Falstaff; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Neema Parvini is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Surrey. His previous books include Shakespeare’s History Plays (EUP, 2012), Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory (Bloomsbury, 2012), Shakespeare and Cognition (Palgrave, 2015) and Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory (Bloomsbury, 2017).

• Contents; Acknowledgements; A Note on Texts; 1. Introduction; 2. New Historicism; James I and the Politics of Literature; 'Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne'; 3. Cultural Materialism; 'History and Ideology, Masculinity and Miscegenation: The Instance of Henry V'; Marginal Politics?; 4. An Argument Against Anti-Humanism; Nature and Nurture; Three Types of Determinism; Freedom versus Determinism and Human Agency; 5. Solutions; 6. Shakespeare's Historical and Political Thought in Context; Sixteenth-century Historiography; Three Strains of Historiography; Shakespeare's Humanist Historiography; 7. Personal Action and Agency in Henry VI;Personal Politics: 2 Henry VI; Class Politics: Cade's Rebellion; Power Politics: 3 Henry VI; 8 Ideology in Richard II and Henry IV; Cultural Historicism and the Second Tetralogy; Richard II: 'Such is the breath of kings' (1.3.208); Henry IV: 'God save the King! Will no man say "Amen"?'; Falstaff; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.