Tania Demetriou is lecturer at the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge
Janice Valls-Russell is a principal research associate of France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the University Paul Valéry, Montpellier

Introduction: Thomas Heywood and 'the antique world'
Janice Valls-Russell and Tania Demetriou
1 Intertextuality and Thomas Heywood's early Ovid: Oenone and Paris
Katherine Heavey
2 Thomas Heywood's Loves Schoole: emulation, adaptation, and anachronism
M. L. Stapleton
3 Rescripting classical stories of rape from page to stage: Lucrece and Callisto
Janice Valls-Russell
4 'Interlaced with sundry histories': the open structure of The Silver Age
Yves Peyré
5 A 'glorious Greek'? Thomas Heywood and Hercules
Richard Rowland
6 The not-so-classical tradition: mythographic complexities in 1 Iron Age
Charlotte Coffin
7 Reading the classics, but how? mythographic paradigms and 'ill-joined marquetry'
Yves Peyré
8 Compendious poetry: Homer and Ausonius in Thomas Heywood's Various History Concerninge Women
Tania Demetriou
9 'The scene lies in Hel': the world of Lucian in Thomas Heywood's 'stage-poetry'
Camilla Temple
10 Acting like Greeks
Tanya Pollard
11 A theatre for the Iron Age: theorising practice in Thomas Heywood's Ages plays
Chloe Kathleen Preedy
12 The Sovereign of the Seas: Thomas Heywood's 3D engagement with the classics
Janice Valls-Russell

Appendix: Heywood's works: a chronological table
Select bibliography
Index