Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-243) and index.
Introduction : the elme and the vine -- King John : the church, the courts and the law -- The comedy of errors : the parody of errors and heresies -- Twelfth night : the errors of exorcism -- Measure for measure : the transition to Stuart rule -- Cymbeline : the oath of allegiance and the English Catholic -- Henry VIII : the Protestant-Catholic court in 1613