Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of abbreviations and conventions; Introduction; 1. Date; 2. Puritanism, political allusion and censorship; 3. The sources and their shaping; 4. The play; 5. The play on the stage; 6. Note on the text; 7. List of characters; 8. The play; 9. Textual analysis; Reading list.