Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Texts and Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction: Marlowe's Ovidian Career, Spenser, and the Writing of Counter-Nationhood 3
6. Part I: Sea-Bank Myrtle Sprays: Amatory Poetry
7. 1. Ovid's Counter-Virgilian Cursus in the Amores 31
8. 2. Marlowe's New Renaissance Ovid: 'Area maior' in Ovid's Elegies 49
9. 3. Career Rivalry, Counter-Nationhood, and Philomela in 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' 68
10. Part II: Sceptres and High Buskins: Tragedy
11. 4. Dido, Queen of Carthage and the Coining of '"Eliza"' 99
12. 5. 'Thondring words of threate': Spenser in Tamburlaine, Parts i and 2 115
13. 6. Machiavelli and the Play of Policy in The Jew of Malta 136
14. 7. 'Italian masques by night': Machiavellian Policy and Ovidian Play in Edward II 157
15. 8. 'Actors in this massacre': The Massacre at Paris and the Orphic Guise of Metatheatre 175
16. 9. Un-script(ur)ing Christian Tragedy: Ovidian Love, Magic, and Glory in Doctor Faustus 190
17. Part III: Trumpets and Drums: Epic 221
18. 10. Counter-Epic of Empire: Lucan's First Book 227
19. 11. Marlowe, Chapman, and the Rewriting of Spenser's England in Hero and Leander 238
20. Afterword: Counterfeiting the Profession 259
21. Notes 265
22. Works Cited 345
23. Index 379