2 Beautiful Polecats: The Living and the Dead in Julius Caesar

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: The Edge and the Centre
6. Chapter 1 “All places shall be hell that are not heaven”: The Edge of Rome 31
7. 2 Beautiful Polecats: The Living and the Dead in Julius Caesar 51
8. 3 Danger and Demarcation in Massinger 68
9. Part Two: Edges Abroad
10. Chapter 4 “Having passed Armenian deserts now”: Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great 95
11. 5 Bears and Fairies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night 115
12. 6 The Last Plays and the Edges of Christendom 135
13. 7 The Politics of the Rose: English Histories and Foreign Flowers 158
14. Part Three: Edges at Home
15. Chapter 8 North by North-West: The Danelaw and the Edge of Christendom 183
16. 9 Let the Right One In: Edges of Christendom in Cavendish-Talbot Houses 203
17. Conclusion 223
18. Works Cited 226
19. Index of Place Names, Authors, and Works 244