Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Shakespeare's fatal Cleopatra
- 1 Shakespeare and the Troy Legend
- 2 Blazoning injustices: mutilating Titus Andronicus, Vergil, and Rome
- 3 “Tricks we play on the dead”: making history in Troilus and Cressida
- 4 To earn a place in the story: resisting the Aeneid in Antony and Cleopatra
- 5 Cymbeline's mingle-mangle: Britain's Roman histories
- 6 “How came that widow in?”: allusion, politics, and the theater in The Tempest
- Notes
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Shakespeare's fatal Cleopatra
- 1 Shakespeare and the Troy Legend
- 2 Blazoning injustices: mutilating Titus Andronicus, Vergil, and Rome
- 3 “Tricks we play on the dead”: making history in Troilus and Cressida
- 4 To earn a place in the story: resisting the Aeneid in Antony and Cleopatra
- 5 Cymbeline's mingle-mangle: Britain's Roman histories
- 6 “How came that widow in?”: allusion, politics, and the theater in The Tempest
- Notes
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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- Shakespeare's TroyDrama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire, pp. ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997