Chapter 1 Introduction: Fostering Discussion — From the Irish Question to the British Problem by Way of the English Renaissance

Chapter 2 ‘This Sceptred Isle’: Shakespeare and the British Problem

Chapter 3 Postcolonial Cymbeline : Sovereignty and Succession from Roman to Renaissance Britain

Chapter 4 Shakespeare, Holinshed and Ireland: Resources and Con-texts

Chapter 6 ‘Another Britain’? Bacon’s Certain Considerations Touching the Plantation in Ireland (1606; 1657)

Chapter 7 Fording the Nation: Abridging History in Perkin Warbeck (1633)

Chapter 8 Milton’s Observations (1649) and ‘the Complication of Interests’ in Early Modern Ireland