David Baker is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hawai''i at Manoa. He is the author of Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain (1997). His articles have appeared in Spenser Studies, English Renaissance Literature and Critical Inquiry.
Introduction David Baker and Willy Maley; Part I: Opening the Field: 1.
British history and 'the British history': the same old story? Philip
Schwyzer; 2. An uncertain union David Baker and Willy Maley; 3. Revising
criticism: Ireland and the British model Andrew Murphy; Part II. Contested
Peripheries: 4. 'The lost British lamb': English Catholic exiles and the
problem of Britain Christopher Highley; 5. 'Making history': Holinshed's
Irish chronicles, 1577 and 1587 Richard A. McCabe; Part III. British
Shakespeare: 6. Henry IV: metatheatrical Britain Matthew Greenfield; 7.
Uncertain unions: Welsh leeks in Henry V Patricia Parker; 8. Delving to the
root: Cymbeline, Scotland, and the English race Mary Floyd-Wilson; Part IV.
Union Questions: 9. Reinventing the matter of Britain: undermining the
state in Jacobean masques Jayne Elisabeth Archer and Philippa Berry; 10.
Mapping British identities: Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine
Christopher Ivic; Part V. Britain's Brave New World: 11. Bruited abroad:
John White and Thomas Harriot's Colonial Representations of Ancient Britain
Andrew Hadfield; 12. The Commonwealth of the Word: New England, Old
England, and the Praying Indians Linda Gregerson; Part VI. Restoring
Britain: 13. Orrery's Ireland and the British problem, 1641-1679 John
Kerrigan; 14. Jacobite literature and national Identities Murray Pittock;
Part VII: 15. Historians respond: literature and the new British and Irish
histories Jane Ohlmeyer; 16. Text, time, and the pursuit of 'British
Identities' Derek Hirst.
