Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-262) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Shakespeare's fatal Cleopatra -- Shakespeare and the Troy Legend -- Blazoning injustices: mutilating Titus Andronicus, Vergil, and Rome -- "Tricks we play on the dead": making history in Troilus and Cressida -- To earn a place in the story: resisting the Aeneid in Antony and Cleopatra -- Cymbeline's mingle-mangle: Britain's Roman histories -- "How came that window in?": allusion, politics, and the theater in The Tempest.