Notes on contributors Introduction: 'Warre is all the world about' Thomas Healy and Jonathan Sawday

Part I. Definitions and Premonitions: 1. The very name of the game: theories of order and disorder Annabel Patterson

2. A troubled Arcadia Graham Parry

Part II. Engagement or Retreat: 3. Politics and the masque: Salmacida Spolia MARTIN BUTLER 4. Exploring the language of devotion in the English revolution HELEN Wilcox

Part III: TRUTH AND THE SELF 5. In the wars of truth: violence, true knowledge and power in Milton and Hobbes FRANCIS BARKER 6. 'Some rousing motions': the plurality of Miltonic ideologies THOMAS N. CORNS 7. 'Mysteriously divided': Civil War, madness and the divided self JONATHAN SAWDAY IV: INTERPRETING THE PRESENT 8. Marvell's 'Horatian Ode' and the politics of genre DAVID NORBROOK 9. 'Dark all without it knits': vision and authority in Marvell's Upon Appleton House THOMAS HEALY 10. History digested: opera and colonialism in the 1650s SUSAN J. WISEMAN 11. Cheap and common animals': the English anatomy of Ireland in the seventeenth century Patricia Coughlan

Part V: AFTERMATHS 12. 'The Colonel's Shadow': Lucy Hutchinson, women's writing, and the Civil War N. H. KEEBLE 13. Exporting enthusiasm: John Perrot and the Quaker epic NIGEL Smith

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