The myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

The Roman historians and the myth of Rome

The wronged Lucretian and the early Republic

Self-inflicted wounds

'Like a colossus' : Julius Caesar

Ben Jonson's Rome

O'erflowing the measure : Antony and Cleopatra

The city and the battlefield: Coriolanus

Tyranny and empire

Ancient Britons and Romans

Postscript : Shakespeare and the repbulican tradition.