Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-308) and index.
Sixteenth-century poet-playwright --Francis Meres, the Ovidian
poet-playwright, and Shakespeare criticism --Authorship and acting:
plotting Venus and Adonis along the Virgilian path --Publishing the
show: The rape of Lucrece as Lucanian counter-epic of empire --'Tales
coin'd : "W. Shakespeare" in Jaggard's The passionate pilgrim
--"Threne" and "scene": the author's relics of immortality in "The
phoenix and the turtle" --"O, let my books be dumb presagers": poetry
and theater in the sonnets --"Deep-brain'd sonnets" and "tragic
shows": Shakespeare's late Ovidian art in A lover's complaint --Ariel
and Autolycus: Shakespeare's counter-laureate authorship
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