Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editors’ Preface viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Notes on the Text xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. The Search for a Lofty British Virgil: The Early Elizabethan Aeneids of Thomas Phaer, Thomas Twyne and Richard Stanyhurst 19
8. 2. ‘Sound this Angry Message in Thine Eares’: Sympathy and the Translations of the Aeneid in Marlowe’s Dido Queene of Cart 55
9. 3. Courteous Virgil: The Manuscript Translations of an Anonymous Poet, Sir John Harington and Sir William Mure of Rowallan 78
10. 4. Virginian Virgil: The Single-Book Translations of Sir Thomas Wroth, Sir Dudley Digges and George Sandys 116
11. 5. Rome at War: The Military Virgils of John Vicars, Robert Stapylton and Robert Heath 149
12. Conclusion 187
13. Bibliography 194
14. Index 208