Shakespeare and the Ethics of War

Patrick Gray is Associate Professor of English Studies at Durham University. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), co-editor with Lars Engle and William M. Hamlin of Shakespeare and Montaigne (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), and co-editor with John D. Cox of Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2014). His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Textual Practice, Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Comparative Drama and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

• Chapter 1. Shakespeare and War: Honour at the StakePatrick GrayChapter 2. Shakespeare in Sarajevo: Theatrical and Cinematic Encounters with the Balkans WarSara SonciniChapter 3. John of Lancaster’s Negotiation with the Rebels in 2 Henry IV: Fifteenth-Century Northern England as Sixteenth-Century IrelandJane Yeang Chui WongChapter 4. Shakespeare’s Unjust WarsFranziska QuabeckChapter 5. Sine Dolore: Relative Painlessness in Shakespeare’s Laughter at WarDaniel DerrinChapter 6. The Better Part of Stolen Valour: Counterfeits, Comedy and the Supreme CourtDavid CurrellChapter 7. Hamletism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39Jesús TronchChapter 8. Where Character Is King: Gregory Doran’s HenriadAlice Dailey