Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-324) and index
Introduction: The Elizabethan Dramatists as Literary Critics -- - Shakespeare's Purge of Jonson: The Theatrical Context of Troilus and Cressida -- - Jonson on Shakespeare: Criticism as Self-Creation -- - Representing Jonson: Histriomastix and the Origin of the Poets' War -- - Shakespeare in Love: The Containment of Comical Satire in As You Like It -- - Marston's Festive Comedy: Punishing Jonson in Jack Drum's Entertainment -- - The War of the Private Theaters: Cynthia's Revels or What You Will -- - Shakespeare at the Fountain of Self-Love: Twelfth Night at the Center of the Poets' War -- - "Impeaching Your Own Quality": Constructions of Poetic Authority in Poetaster and Satiromastix -- - Ben Jonson and the "Little Eyases": Theatrical Politics in Hamlet -- - An Armed Epilogue: Troilus and Cressida and the Impact of the Poets' War