CONTENTS

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From the Mycenae Papers[1]
With the Carthaginian Fleet, 216 b.c.[21]
Lesbia Illa[29]
Cleopatra at Rome[39]
Ovid’s Banishment[50]
The Caprae Regatta, a.d. 27[60]
Messalina[68]
Nero Interviewed, Rome, a.d. 64[81]
Marcus Aurelius at Lanuvium[91]
The Camelot Jousts[103]
King Lear’s Daughter[113]
Lady Macbeth’s Trouble[121]
At the Court of King Claudius[130]
Romeo and Rosaline[138]
A First Night[147]
The Poet, the Player, and the Literary Agent[156]
Bath, 1663[168]
Peter the Great[176]
“Hamlet” and Dr. Dodd[188]
Herr Müller[197]
Heine in Paris[207]
Smith Major[217]
From Saturday to Monday[224]
A Russian Sailor[236]