Introduction: rethinking early modern stereotyping in the twenty-first century - Koji Yamamoto and Peter Lake
1 Religious and national stereotyping and prejudice in seventeenth-century England - Tim Harris
2 On thinking (historically) with stereotypes, or the puritan origins of anti-puritanism - Peter Lake
3 History plays, Catholic polemics and the staging of political economy in Elizabethan England - Koji Yamamoto
4 Alchemists, puritans and projectors in the plays of Ben Jonson - Peter Lake and Koji Yamamoto
5 Ranter and Quaker stereotyping in the English Revolution - Kate Peters
6 Fighting popery with popery: subverting stereotypes and contesting anti-Catholicism in late seventeenth-century England - Adam Morton
7 'We do naturally . hate the French': Francophobia and Francophilia in Samuel Pepys's Diary - David Magliocco
8 'Sin and sea coal': smoke as urban life in early modern London - William Cavert
9 Laboratories of subjectification: characters and stereotypes in late Stuart and Georgian theatre - Bridget Orr
10 From Reformation to Enlightenment in post-civil war orientalism - William J. Bulman
Coda: the dialectics of stereotyping - past and present - Sandra Jovchelovitch, Koji Yamamoto and Peter Lake
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