Introduction: The Roman plays in the Fletcher canon
1 'Take your Lily / And get your part ready': Fletcher and the classics
2 'I am no Roman, / Nor what I am do I know': Fletcher's Roman plays as Trauerspiele
3 'Had Lucrece e'er been thought of but for Tarquin?': The inadequacy of Roman female exempla
4 'To do thus / I learned of thee': Shakespeare's exemplary Roman plays
Conclusion: Questioning the classics
Bibliography
Index