Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- NOTES -- PART I AN INITIAL PERSPECTIVE -- CHAPTER 1 Shakespeare and humanistic culture -- NOTES -- PART II 'SMALL LATINE' -- OVID -- CHAPTER 2 Petruchio is 'Kated': The Taming of the Shrew and Ovid -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 Ovid's myths and the unsmooth course of love in AMidsummer Night's Dream -- THESEUS AND HIPPOLYTA AND THE PLAY'S OPENING -- THE YOUNG LOVERS -- THE MARRIED LOVERS -- THESEUS AND HIPPOLYTA AT THE CLOSE -- POSTSCRIPT -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 Shakespeare's learned heroines in Ovid's schoolroom -- LEARNING TO SPEAK IN THE COMEDIES -- FORGETTING TO BE A WOMAN: THE BOYHOOD OF COMIC HEROINES -- BOLD SPEECH, HONEST OVID, AND THE DEAD SHEPHERD -- NOTES -- VIRGIL -- CHAPTER 5 Shakespeare and Virgil -- NOTES -- PLAUTUS AND TERENCE -- CHAPTER 6 Shakespeare's reception of Plautus reconsidered -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 Shakespeare, Plautus, and the discovery of New Comic space -- NOTES -- SENECA -- CHAPTER 8 'Confusion now hath made his masterpiece': Senecan resonances in Macbeth -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 9 'These are the only men': Seneca and monopoly in Hamlet 2.2 -- NOTES -- PART III 'LESSE GREEK' -- PLUTARCH -- CHAPTER 10 'Character' in Plutarch and Shakespeare: Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony -- JULIUS CAESAR -- ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 11 Plutarch, Shakespeare, and the alpha males -- NOTES -- GENERAL -- CHAPTER 12 Action at a distance: Shakespeare and the Greeks -- NOTES -- GREEK ROMANCES -- CHAPTER 13 Shakespeare and Greek romance: 'Like an old tale still' -- NOTES -- GREEK TRAGEDY -- CHAPTER 14 Shakespeare and Greek tragedy: strange relationship -- NOTES -- PART IV THE RECEPTION OF SHAKESPEARE'S CLASSICISM -- CHAPTER 15 'The English Homer': Shakespeare, Longinus, and English 'neo-classicism' -- NOTES.

CHAPTER 16 'There is no end but addition': the later reception of Shakespeare's classicism -- NOTES -- Select bibliography -- 1. REFERENCE -- 2. GENERAL -- 3. SHAKESPEARE AND ROME -- 4. INDIVIDUAL ANCIENT POETS -- APULEIUS -- ARISTOTLE AND PLATO -- CICERO -- GREEK ROMANCE -- GREEK TRAGEDY -- HORACE -- LIVY -- LUCAN -- LUCIAN -- OVID -- PLAUTUS AND TERENCE -- PLINY THE ELDER -- PLUTARCH -- SENECA -- SUETONIUS AND TACITUS -- VIRGIL -- 5. INDIVIDUAL PLAYS -- ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA -- THE COMEDY OF ERRORS -- CORIOLANUS -- CYMBELINE -- HAMLET -- HENRY IV -- HENRY V -- HENRY VI -- JULIUS CAESAR -- KING LEAR -- LOVE'S LABOUR 'S LOST -- MACBETH -- MEASURE FOR MEASURE -- THE MERCHANT OF VENICE -- THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR -- A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM -- OTHELLO -- PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE -- THE RAPE OF LUCRECE -- RICHARD II -- RICHARD III -- ROMEO AND JULIET -- THE SONNETS -- THE TAMING OF THE SHREW -- THE TEMPEST -- TIMON OF ATHENS -- TITUS ANDRONICUS -- TROILUS AND CRESSIDA -- TWELFTH NIGHT -- VENUS AND ADONIS -- THE WINTER'S TALE -- Index.