Abstract
List of plates Preface 1. Introduction: medieval and modern 2. The artifice of eternity: court poet of Elizabeth's reign 3. The web of being: Elizabethan poetic and the popular stages 4. The Ovidian romance 5. The flowing tide: Shakespeare and Elizabethan English 6. The mirror of nature: character in Shakespeare's plays 7. Moral heraldry: Titus Andronicus, Rape of Lucrece, Romeo and Juliet 8. Tragical-historical: Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II 9. The fashioning of a courtier: sonnets, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Midsummer Night's Dream 10. Polyphonic music: All's Well, Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing 9. Comical-historical: Henry IV, Henry V 12. Comical-fantastic: Love's Labour's Lost, As You Like It, Twelfth Night Appendix Notes Index.
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