Cover -- Publication Data -- Title Page -- A Note on the Author -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. 'Jacobethan' Attitudes -- 1.1 History and Politics -- 1.2 The Model of the World -- 1.3 Free Will and the Fall of Man -- 1.4 Macrocosm and Microcosm -- 1.5. The Failure of the Model -- 2. Theories of Drama -- History and Tragedy -- 3. History, Tragedy, and Politics -- 4. The Sources and their use -- 5. The Figure of Richard -- 5.1 Richard and the Morality Vice -- 5.2 Richard and the machiavel -- 6. Richard's Performance -- 7. Conscience and the King-Some Themes of the Play -- 7.1 Justice, Vengeance, Revenge -- 7.2 Time and the Importance of Margaret -- 8. The Structure of the Play -- 9. Language, Style and Rhetoric -- 10. Afterword -- Appendix: The Text of the Play -- Further Reading -- Conceptual Index -- HYPERLINKS -- Insights.