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 10 1603 and the Discourse of Favouritism

Chapter 11 The Essex Myth in Jacobean England

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