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List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on texts; Proem:Shakespeare's 'Plaies and Poems'; Part I. The Imprint of ShakespeareanAuthorship: Prelude: Shakespeare, Cervantes, Petrarch; 1. Thesixteenth-century poet-playwright; 2. Francis Meres, the Ovidianpoet-playwright, and Shakespeare criticism; Part II. 1593-1594: The PrintAuthor Presents Himself: Play Scene: 'Two Gentlemen' to 'Richard III'; 3.Authorship and acting: plotting Venus and Adonis along the Virgilian path; 4.Publishing the show: The Rape of Lucrece as Lucanian counter-epic of empire;Part III. 1599-1601: The Author Brought Into Print: Play Scene: 'Love'sLabor's Lost' to 'Troilus and Cressida'; 5. 'Tales ... coined': 'W.Shakespeare' in Jaggard's The Passionate Pilgrim; 6. 'Threne' and 'scene':the author's relics of immortality in 'The Phoenix and Turtle'; Part IV.1609: Imprinting the Question of Authorship: Play Scene: 'Measure forMeasure' to 'Coriolanus'; 7. 'O, let my books be ... dumb presagers': poetryand theatre in the sonnets; 8. 'Deep-brain'd sonnets' and 'tragic shows':Shakespeare's late Ovidian art in A Lover's Complaint; Epilogue. Ariel andAutolycus: Shakespeare's counter-laureate authorship; Works cited; Index.