Shakespeare, politics, and Italy: intertextuality on the Jacobean stage

Introduction : the politics of intertextuality

"You are better read than I" : rereading the Italianate Englishman

"And let them know that I am Machiavel" : staging Italian political theory for the London audience

"I have my dukedom got" : Shakespeare and the evolution of the Italianate disguised ruler play

"No more a Britain" : James I, Jachimo, and the politics of xenophobia in Cymbeline.