Jonson, Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil (Paperback)

List of illustrations; Preface; Bibliographical note; Introduction; Part I. Figures of Virgil and Their Place in Early Modern England: 1. English readers' Virgils; 2. Informing youth, and confirming man: an English schoolboy's Virgils; 3. Secrets of nature and culture: the learned man's Virgils; Part II. Jonson, Shakespeare and Figures of Virgil: 4. 'The most learned of poets': Jonson's use of Virgilian authority; 5. Of 'chaste ear' and 'soveraigne worth': Jonson's use of Virgil as author; 7. Shaking Neptune's 'dread trident': The Tempest and figures of Virgil; Bibliography; Index.