Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Shakespeare and Sidney. Two worlds: the brazen and the golden
  • 3. Shakespeare and Ovid. 'What strained touches rhetoric can lend': poetry metamorphosed in Venus and Adonis and the Sonnets
  • 4. 'In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life': exposing art's sterility. The Rape of Lucrece, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest
  • 5. 'O'er-wrested seeming': dramatic illusion and the repudiation of mimesis. Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet
  • 6. 'Thy registers and thee I both defy': history challenged. Richard III, Henry VIII, Henry V and Richard II
  • 7. Antony and Cleopatra as 'A Defence of Drama'.