附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Shakespeare and Sidney. Two worlds: the brazen and the golden -- 3. Shakespeare and Ovid. 'What strained touches rhetoric can lend': poetry metamorphosed in Venus and Adonis and the Sonnets -- 4. 'In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life': exposing art's sterility. The Rape of Lucrece, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest -- 5. 'O'er-wrested seeming': dramatic illusion and the repudiation of mimesis. Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet -- 6. 'Thy registers and thee I both defy': history challenged. Richard III, Henry VIII, Henry V and Richard II -- 7. Antony and Cleopatra as 'A Defence of Drama'.
