Domenico Lovascio teaches English Literature at the University of Genoa in Italy

'...this book is a key study for early modern drama.'Notes and Queries'This monograph, ground-breaking as it is in several respects, valuably remindsus that Shakespeare and Jonson were not the only dramatists to write ‘Romanplays’... Lovascio is to be thanked for this valuable work...'Early Theatre'John Fletcher’s Rome itself, along with Lovascio’s other scholarship, has greatly contributed to the exploration of the work of this important dramatist and of the period generally, clearing the way for further research while serving as a shining example to emulate.'Shakespeare Quarterly

• Introduction: The Roman plays in the Fletcher canon1 ‘Take your Lily / And get your part ready’: Fletcher and the classics2 ‘I am no Roman, / Nor what I am do I know’: Fletcher’s Roman plays as Trauerspiele3 ‘Had Lucrece e’er been thought of but for Tarquin?’: The inadequacy of Roman female exempla4 ‘To do thus / I learned of thee’: Shakespeare’s exemplary Roman playsConclusion: Questioning the classicsBibliographyIndex

Domenico Lovascio teaches English Literature at the University of Genoa in Italy

'...this book is a key study for early modern drama.'Notes and Queries'This monograph, ground-breaking as it is in several respects, valuably remindsus that Shakespeare and Jonson were not the only dramatists to write ‘Romanplays’... Lovascio is to be thanked for this valuable work...'Early Theatre'John Fletcher’s Rome itself, along with Lovascio’s other scholarship, has greatly contributed to the exploration of the work of this important dramatist and of the period generally, clearing the way for further research while serving as a shining example to emulate.'Shakespeare Quarterly

• Introduction: The Roman plays in the Fletcher canon1 ‘Take your Lily / And get your part ready’: Fletcher and the classics2 ‘I am no Roman, / Nor what I am do I know’: Fletcher’s Roman plays as Trauerspiele3 ‘Had Lucrece e’er been thought of but for Tarquin?’: The inadequacy of Roman female exempla4 ‘To do thus / I learned of thee’: Shakespeare’s exemplary Roman playsConclusion: Questioning the classicsBibliographyIndex

Domenico Lovascio teaches English Literature at the University of Genoa in Italy

'...this book is a key study for early modern drama.'Notes and Queries'This monograph, ground-breaking as it is in several respects, valuably remindsus that Shakespeare and Jonson were not the only dramatists to write ‘Romanplays’... Lovascio is to be thanked for this valuable work...'Early Theatre'John Fletcher’s Rome itself, along with Lovascio’s other scholarship, has greatly contributed to the exploration of the work of this important dramatist and of the period generally, clearing the way for further research while serving as a shining example to emulate.'Shakespeare Quarterly

• Introduction: The Roman plays in the Fletcher canon1 ‘Take your Lily / And get your part ready’: Fletcher and the classics2 ‘I am no Roman, / Nor what I am do I know’: Fletcher’s Roman plays as Trauerspiele3 ‘Had Lucrece e’er been thought of but for Tarquin?’: The inadequacy of Roman female exempla4 ‘To do thus / I learned of thee’: Shakespeare’s exemplary Roman playsConclusion: Questioning the classicsBibliographyIndex