Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-355) and index.
Contents
Was Shakespeare a republican? -- Republican culture in the 1590s -- Forms of republican culture in late sixteenth-century England -- Literature and republicanism in the age of Shakespeare -- Shakespeare and Republicanism -- Shakespeare's early republican career -- Shakespeare's Pharsalia: the first tetralogy -- The beginning of the republic: Venus and Lucrece -- The end of the republic: Titus Andronicus and Julius Caesar -- The radical Hamlet -- After the republican moment.