Shakespeare, the king's playwright: theater in the Stuart court, 1603-1613

Introduction : Shakespeare at the Stuart Court

Art and theater in the service of the Leviathan state

Blood revenge in Elsinore and in holyrood : Hamlet (Hampton Court, Christmas 1603)

The king's prerogative and the law : Measure for measure (Whitehall, December 26, 1604)

The politics of madness and demonism : Macbeth (Hampton Court, August 7, 1606)

The true king : Lear (Whitehall, Christmas 1606)

Sex and favor in the court : Antony and Cleopatra (Whitehall, Christmas 1607)

The military and the court aristocracies : Coriolanus (Whitehall, Christmas 1608)

The king and the poet : The tempest (Whitehall, Winter 1613)

Shakespeare's sonnets and patronage art

What the king saw, what the poet wrote

Appendix A : Theatrical calendar of the King's Men at court, 1603-14

Appendix B : The Great Hall at Christ Church, Oxford, August 1605.