Constructing A World -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Historical Fiction Old and New -- 2. Of Narrators -- or How the Teller Tells the Tale -- 3. Historical Novelists at Work: George Garrett and Anthony Burgess -- 4. Barry Unsworth's Morality Play and the Origins of English Secular Drama -- 5. Fictional Queen Elizabeths and Women-Centered Historical Fiction -- 6. Rewriting Shakespeare: The Henriad with and without Falstaff -- 7. Teaching Shakespeare's England through Historical Fiction -- Notes -- 1. Introduction: Historical Fiction Old and New -- 2. Of Narrators -- or How the Teller Tells the Tale -- 3. Historical Novelists at Work: George Garrett and Anthony Burgess -- 4. Barry Unsworth's Morality Play and the Origins of English Secular Drama -- 5. Fictional Queen Elizabeths and Women-Centered Historical Fiction -- 6. Rewriting Shakespeare: The Henriad with and without Falstaff -- 7. Teaching Shakespeare's England through Historical Fiction -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.