Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • PERIODICALS
  • SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS AND POEMS
  • Introduction
  • THE HEROIC IDEAL
  • 'COURAGE-MASCULINE'
  • 'ENGLISSHE CHEVALRIE'
  • ROMAN VIRTUE
  • AN ORPHERUS FOR A HERCULES
  • THE ETHIC OF HEROISM
  • CHAPTER 1 The chivalric revival: 'Henry V' and 'Troilus and Cressida'
  • THE CHIVALRIC REVIVAL
  • HOLY WARRIOR
  • THE DANGERS OF IDEALISM
  • THE COLLAPSE OF CHIVALRY
  • MANHOOD AND HONOUR
  • CHAPTER 2 'Tender and delicate prince': 'Hamlet'
  • WELCOMING THE IRREDENTIST
  • CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS
  • VIKING HONOR
  • 'THE TEFLON FACTOR'
  • CHAPTER 3 'O these men, these men': Othello
  • HERCULEAN HERO
  • NOBLE SAVAGE?
  • METAMORPHOSIS
  • ALL IN HONOUR
  • OTHELLO'S OCCUPATION
  • CHAPTER 4 'Arms and the Man': Macbeth
  • BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS
  • 'MACBETH', KING JAMES, AND THE BRITISH MYTH
  • AUGUSTUS REDIVIVUS
  • VIRGIL'S AMBIVALENCE
  • 'MACBETH' AS ROYAL COMPLIMENT
  • SHAKESPEAREAN DIALECTIC
  • CHAPTER 5 'Flower of warriors': Coriolanus
  • THE POLITICS OF VIRTUE
  • 'LIKE MARS IN ARMOR CLAD'
  • REPUBLICAN ROME
  • FLOWER OF WARRIORS
  • THE BODY POLITIC
  • WAR AND CHIVALRY
  • CHAPTER 6 'Rarer action': The Tempest
  • HERCULES AND ORPHEUS: THE QUEST FOR PEACE
  • 'THE TEMPEST' AND COLONIALISM
  • ORPHEUS REDIVIVUS
  • DYNASTIC MARRIAGE
  • THE PRIMITIVIST MYTH
  • THE FINAL END OF POESY
  • Afterword: historicism and 'presentism'
  • Select bibliography
  • PRIMARY SOURCES
  • SELECTED SECONDARY SOURCES
  • Index.