The early Tudor history play / Janette Dillon -- The reformation of history in John Bale's biblical dramas / Andrew W. Taylor -- Seneca and the early Elizabethan history play / Michael Ullyot -- History in the making: the case of Samuel Rowley's when you see me you know me (1604/5) / Teresa Grant -- The stage historicizes the Turk: convention and contradiction in the Turkish history play / Mark Hutchings -- News drama: the tragic subject of Charles I / Barbara Ravelhofer