Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Foreword xi
6. Introduction xv
7. I. Lingua Franca and Topsy-turvical Coincidence 5
8. II. In Search of Horace and a Web of Sense 21
9. III. Héraclius, Hamlet and Genealogy 35
10. IV. Zembla - “How Farce and Epic Get a Jumbled Race” 49
11. V. Hamlet Unrestored: Sémiramis and the Royal Tomb 61
12. VI. Classical Affinities I : A Modern Aeneas 73
13. VII. Classical affinities II: An Ancient Nisus 87
14. VIII. The Browning Version and Contemporary Reality 103
15. IX. Corn, Cuckoldry, and the Amazonian Chin 121
16. X. Toile d’Eliot or Combinational Delight 135
17. XI. Phoenician Metamorphoses: Myth and Reality 159
18. XII. Varia - Selenography, Kinbote/Botkin, Glaucus, Fénélon 171
19. XIII. Murderous Intrigues 185
20. XIV. Tragedy and the Stagyrite 201
21. XV. Dramatic Poetry, Regicide, and Poetic Drama 211
22. XVI. Germanitas and Les Germains 229
23. XVII. Deus in Machina 237
24. Bibliography 245
25. Index 253