Imagining Antiquity in Shakespeare’s England

Heather James is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Classics at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. Previous publications include Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England (2021) and Shakespeare’s Troy: Drama, Politics, and the Translation of Empire (1997, 2000).Andrew Wallace is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University, Canada. Previous publications include Virgil’s Schoolboys: The Poetics of Pedagogy in Renaissance England (2010), The Presence of Rome in Early Modern Britain: Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs (2020) and the co-edited collection Taking Exception to the Law: Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature, ed. Donald Beecher, Travis DeCook, Andrew Wallace, and Grant Williams (2015).

• Introduction: PART 1: (RE)WRITING THE PAST.- Chapter 1: “Male Friendship in Antony and Cleopatra”.- Chapter 2: “The Shadow of Osiris: Mythic Rivalry in Antony and Cleopatra”.- Chapter 3: “The “stretchéd meter of an antique song”: Hearing Classical Time in Shakespeare’s Sonnets”.- Chapter 4: “On Slavery and Comedy of Errors” PART 2: THE LANGUAGE OF THE CLASSICS.- Chapter 5: “Pathopeia in the Henry VI Plays the Shape of Emotions in Shakespeare’s First Style”.- Chapter 6: “Dissolving Heroism on the English Renaissance stage”.- Chapter 7: “Caliban’s Schoolroom”.- PART 3: PERFORMING ANTIQUITY.- Chapter 8: “Pompey the Great, a Shakespearean Character Without a Dramatic Part”.- Chapter 9: “Theatrical Entertainments at Bisham Abbey and Sudeley Castle (1592)”.- Chapter 10: “Ghosts of the University Stage in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar”.- Chapter 11: “Aeschylus, Early Modern Tragedy, and the 1518 Agamemnon”.- Chapter 12: “Allegory, Antiquity, and the Church in The Virgin Martyr”.- Chapter 13: “The Hammock in Ravenscroft’s Titus Andronicus: Indigenous Technology and Roman Historiography on the Restoration Stage”.- Chapter 14: "Tempus and Distemperature: Marlowe’s Lucan and the Anthropocene".