Chapter 1 1603: The End of English National Sovereignty

Chapter 2 ‘Representing the awefull authoritie of soveraigne Majestie’: Monarchs and Mayors in Anthony Munday’s The Triumphes of Re-united Britania

Chapter 3 The Jacobean Union Controversy and King Lear

Chapter 4 Radical Britain: David Hume of Godscroft and the Challenge to the Jacobean British Vision

Chapter 5 The Happier Marriage Partner: The Impact of the Union of the Crowns on Scotland

Chapter 6 London or the World? The Paradox of Culture in (post-) Jacobean Scotland

Chapter 7 ‘Twice done and then done double’: Equivocation and the Catholic Recusant Hostess in Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Chapter 8 The Romans in Britain, 1603–1614

Chapter 9 Rex Pacificus , Robert Cecil, and the 1604 Peace with Spain

Chapter 11 The Essex Myth in Jacobean England

Chapter 12 The Ancient Constitution and the Expanding Empire: Sir Edward Coke’s British Jurisprudence