Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Shakespeare's English history plays in the college classroom, including considerations of historiography, digital archives, political rhetoric, gender, ecocriticism, masculinity, maps, authority and legitimacy, performance, and composition. Includes information on editions, reference works, biographies, and online resources. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.

Laurie Ellinghausen is associate professor of English at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and the author of Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667 (2008). Her articles have appeared in such venues as Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; Exemplaria; and Explorations in Renaissance Culture. Her current project is a study of renegades in early modern English drama and popular print.