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 Index