Foreword | |
Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
The building of the first Globe and the Elizabethan calendar controversy | |
Building Shakespeare's Globe | p. 3 |
Julius Caesar and the Elizabethan calendar controversy | p. 17 |
Calendrical markers in Julius Caesar | p. 25 |
Temporal markers to mid-June 1599 in Julius Caesar | p. 36 |
Shakespeare's Corpus Christi archetype | p. 71 |
Endemic time confusion in Julius Caesar | |
The web of Caesar's time | p. 77 |
Shakespeare's vernal equinox gambit: 'Here lies the East ...' | p. 88 |
Why the 'sunne of Rome' set at three o'clock | p. 96 |
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the movable feast discordances of 1599 | |
The disrupted Easter cycle of 1599 | p. 103 |
Shrovetide, St. Valentine's Eve and the Roman Lupercal | p. 105 |
Ash Wednesday, the night of the Lupercal and the eve of the Ides of March | p. 120 |
Good Friday, the Ides of March and the day Christ died | p. 129 |
Shakespeare's third day, the Books of Samuel and the Mass of the Catechumens | p. 143 |
Holy Easter and Shakespeare's April Fools | p. 166 |
Shakespeare among the assassins | |
The writer who changed the world | p. 183 |
Evidence of calendrical markers in other plays of Shakespeare | |
Prolegomenon for a mode of criticism | p. 197 |
Illyria's faulty calendar | p. 199 |
Real time in Hamlet | p. 217 |
Caesar's place of death | p. 248 |
The other Pontifex Maximus of Rome | p. 250 |
Brutus's reading of Cicero | p. 253 |
'Wit'or 'writ' in Antony's funeral oration? | p. 257 |
Antony's wordplay on 'honourable men' | p. 259 |
The priesthood of Julius Caesar | p. 262 |
'Wrong in a just cause' | p. 265 |
Dating the two battles at Philippi | p. 269 |
Luther's exchange of pamphlets with Henry VIII | p. 270 |
Principal holy days in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, 3 June-5 September 1599 | p. 272 |
From the Book of Common Prayer (1560), folio 4v | p. 275 |
Bibliography | p. 278 |
Index | p. 287 |
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