This is the first comprehensive study of the revival and appropriation of the Roman triumph from the 1580s to the 1650s. English versions of the triumph included ceremonial re-enactments, poetic or pictorial representations, and stage performances. As well as many non-canonical writers, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Marvell, and Milton all produced versions. The book includes an original survey of ancient literary models and the work of humanist antiquarians, and shows how all its texts are implicated in contemporary political conflicts and discourses.

Anthony Miller is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sydney. He has published editions of Shakespeare's Richard III and Julius Caesar, a monograph on Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and his articles have been published in Classical and Modern Literature, Studies in Philology and English Literary Renaissance and other journals.

List of Plates Preface Introduction Roman Models Humanist Transmission Elizabethans and the Armada Marlowe and Spenser The Stuart Peace Shakespeare and Stuart Drama Civil War and Commonwealth Marvell and Milton Notes Bibliography of Classical Texts Index